“In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“The activity which seems unthinkable today can become your warm-up in the future!”
Source: The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way
“Expectation is a very powerful creative force.”
“Say ... why not come with me. The world is so wide,
you can fit all your travels and trekkings inside.”
Source: Hershel's Big Move: A story about making your life better, no matter what happens on the way.
“Optimists are the least prepared for the loss of hope.”
“O mundo está numa situação ruim. Porém tudo vai piorar ainda mais se cada um de nós não fizer o melhor que pode.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“You should be excited to meet new people and try new things—to assume the best about them, in the absence of evidence to the contrary. In the long run, optimism is the best prevention for regret.”
Source: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
“Well, without at least some optimism writing anything is impossible -- you have to believe that someone out there will be reading what you write. Even more so for science fiction for me -- we're thinking and writing about the future, so to a greater or lesser extent we're thinking that there will be a future to participate in, and that people will be there to tell us what we got right and what we got wrong. Even dystopian literature often trades in hope of some form -- people fighting against the dystopia, for example. There will always be specific counter-examples, but I think generally science fiction has optimism baked in. We believe in the future, even if there's a long slog between where we are now and where we will go.”
“A pessioptimist is a person who doesn't expect anything to go the way it ought to but will be happy, deliriously so, when anything goes the way it ought to, if it does happen.”
Source: A place of beautiful nonsense
“The story isn't over, it isn't foreclosed, and that's the point: there's a tiny chink into the future that might be wedged open.”
Source: Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language