Guardedly Optimistic Quotes & Sayings

At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date. — Christopher Buckley

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,
Her ashes new-create another heir
As great in admiration as herself. — William Shakespeare

Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest. — Henry David Thoreau

Great team can accomplish great works. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every day when everybody would have lunch I would do TM [Transcendental Meditation] and then I would eat while I was working because I had missed lunch but that is how I survived the 9 years [of Seinfeld], it was that 20 minutes in the middle of the day would save me. — Jerry Seinfeld

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. — Ernest Hemingway,

I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love. — Jennifer Lopez

Don't confuse your grief with guilt. — Veronica Roth

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell. — William Shatner

If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest. — Seungsahn