More Favorite Quotes:

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.  ~Lawrence Welk

I'm not okay, you're not okay, and that's okay.  ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.  ~Anne Bradstreet

Trust yourself.  You know more than you think you do.  ~Benjamin Spock

Optimist:  Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled.  ~Mark Twain

For after all, the best thing one can do When it is raining; is to let it rain.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.  ~Tom Robbins

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia.  Turns out I'm normal.  ~Jules Feiffer

He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.  ~Edgar A. Guest

Oh, my friend, it is not what they take away from you that counts, it's what you do with what you have left.  ~Hubert H. Humphrey

I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.  ~Winston Churchill

Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.  ~Alice Walker  

Make it work.  ~Tim Gunn

You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?  ~Steven Wright

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.  ~Henry Rollins

Do what you feel in your heart to be right--for you'll be criticized anyway.  You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt 

Life isn't fair.  It's just fairer than death, that's all.  ~William Goldman

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism.  It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.  ~Vaclav Havel

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.  ~Garrison Keillor

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.  Don't lose faith.  ~Steve Jobs

I can't go on, I'll go on.  ~Samuel Beckett

I always think that cynics are really romantics who have been crushed sometime in their lives and have put up this cynical mask to protect themselves.  ~Jeff Bridges

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  ~Oscar Wilde

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.  ~Guillaume Apollinaire

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals.  Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.  ~Ann Landers

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.  ~Charlie Chaplin

Life is just one damn thing after another.  ~Elbert Hubbard

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.  ~Robertson Davies

We are all special cases.  ~Albert Camus

Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway.  ~John Wayne

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?  ~Jim Carrey

It's okay is a cosmic truth.  ~Richard Bach

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.  Mignon McLaughlin

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it.  You have to go down the chute.  ~Tina Fey

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.  ~Babe Ruth

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.  ~Suzanne Collins

I understand the concept of optimism.  But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.  ~Tom Hanks

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?  ~Ursula K. Le Guin

I like living.  I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie

Start every day off with a smile--and get it over with.  ~W.C. Fields

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.  ~Walt Disney

Go on failing.  Go on.  Only next time, try to fail better.  ~Samuel Beckett

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.  ~Jane Austen

The truth will set you free.  But not until it is finished with you.  ~David Foster Wallace

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse.  I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.  ~J.D. Salinger

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.  ~Helen Keller