Edward Dahlberg Quotes

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

I haven't always made the right decisions.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

I have been wrong enough times to know that it is always a possibility.

The world isn't always great.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

Ultimately, everyone's life is complex, and it's good to show that.

I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're going to have very bad days. But It's rare that things are as good as they look, and it's rare that things are as bad as they seem.' So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.