Category: optimism...

optimism is a gift, a great healing force
the optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the hole
Hope for the best, shoot for the best, expect the best, and be perfectly content with whatever comes.
Optimism: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. (A. Bierce)
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. (N. Cousins)
these are theories of relatively recent date in Western thought, optimism going back to the 18th century and pessimism to the 19th century
the Platonic and Aristotelian ideas of human perfectibility are taken to be optimistic
optimism is the doctrine of Gottfried W Leibniz that the present world is the best of all possible worlds