“To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.”
“In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.”
“There is wisdom in always exploring the counterpoint- sometimes a silver cloud has a dark lining too.”
“Building Your Own Family Is Like A Contractor Without A Labour.”
“Even though my works are overloaded with symbols, they actually have nothing to do with symbols. Even blood is what it is: it is blood and not a symbol at all, and in its reality it is almost above the symbol.”
“A bad day doesn’t cancel out a good life. Keep going.”
“Humans often thought the glass was empty when there was still more in there. I guess if you reached deep enough, you could find something even when there seemed to be nothing left. I always did.”
“Don t waste time with toxic people. They will drain your energy and leave you feeling as if you did something wrong to harm them. ”
“America, what happened to your optimism, your new frontiers, your simple Rockwell dreams? I m plunging into your night, America, pushing myself deep into your heart like a knife, but the blade of my weapon is hope.”
“The International Date Line is the beginning in Eden, the place where God taught our common ancestor to count the days with the week.”
“I felt good. I usually had a window of optimism after I bathed, which wore off by the time I was dry again. But for just then, I was washed. I was hungry in a clean right way I hadn t found in some time.”
“See , what you want; not, what others want.”
“People called him paranoiac and he accepted the label. He had a whole theory of paranoia. I don’t think he remembers that now. He said paranoia was to be understood as essentially optimistic, because the paranoid believed that there was a meaning to events, that the world made sense, even though that sense was concealed.”
“(Query here becomes unavoidable: Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialise?)”
“Those who fail to learn from the past abate its triumphs.”
“I m an optimist about love and a pessimist about the world.”
“Pessimism doesn’t serve you. It’s never served me.”