One day you're waiting for the sky to fall
The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all

Optimism and Pessimism are two buttons that every human being has inside of them. Whether you decide to press Optimism or Pessimism depends on you. No one else, no matter how much they intervene or struggle, can decide this for you. Only you and you alone have the power, so don't give others that power.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.

The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.