"While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations."
— Martin E.P. Seligman
"Life of man [in the state of nature] is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
— Thomas Hobbes
"Pessimism never won any battle."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you'll be in all areas of life."
— Roy T. Bennett
"Know that this world is full of beauty if you have the eyes to see it."
— Louisa May Alcott
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
— Henry David Thoreau
"Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of acc..."
"Never let fear hold you captive. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Never let frustration hold you captive."
"New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it."
— Dorothy Parker
"Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice ..."
"It's never too late to change your life for the better. You don't have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes to you..."
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking."
— Rick Steves
"Optimism is the art of seeing the glass as refillable, not just half full or half empty."
— Frank Sonnenberg
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
— St. Francis of Assisi
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
— Aristotle (commonly summarized)
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
— Bertrand Russell
"A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist."
— Iain Cameron Williams
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
— Helen Keller
"An optimist looks for rainbow when it rains, and looks for stars when its dark."
— Amit Kalantri