OPTIMISM

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining. (Abraham Lincoln)

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. (Mark Twain)

Pessimism is for wimps. (Jaron Lanier)

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. (Lucille Ball)

A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. (Maya Angelou)

Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. (Richard B. Sheridan)

I don’t panic when I get lost. I just change where I want to go. (Rita Rudner)

The heart that loves is always young. (Greek Proverb)

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.” This is the commandment of the great God, and He cannot command the impossible. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life. (Mother Theresa)

The optimist proclaims that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true.

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.

If you observe a really happy man, you’ll find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar stud that has rolled under the dressing table. (W. Beran Wolfe)

What a wonderful life I’ve had. I only wish I’d realized it sooner. (Collette)

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I’m not old…I’m chronologically gifted.

I’m not bald…I’m just taller than my hair.

I’m not fat…I’m just short for my weight.

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in it’s turn, as the round earth rolls. (John Muir)

Our true nationality is mankind. (H. G. Wells)

Nothing is foolproof to the sufficiently talented fool.

He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed. (David Frost)

I love to sleep. It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious. (Rita Rudner)

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. (H.L. Mencken)

There is a wonderful mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom, and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else. (Author Unknown)

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar. (Drew Carey)

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. (Steven Wright)

I’ve learned to take vacations 15 minutes at a time. (Dave Cross)

Even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a while. (Jim Sullivan)

Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.

I ran out of ice cream bars the other day, and I cried. Then I remembered Alexander the Great, and how he wept when there were no more worlds to conquer. How very much alike we are, I thought.