#optimist

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm! ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#optimist #humor

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#allow #any #constructive #dwell #kind

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person? ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #bitter #childlike #could #dark

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#company #feel #felt #get #gotten

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. ↗

— Mark Twain

#before #knows #little #man #much

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

#between #day #developed #every #every day

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#could #hope #humanity #i #kind

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#going #i #know #nothing #now

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album. ↗

— Deana Carter

#always #approach #been #end #hopeful

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#girl #mistakes #optimist #who