George MacDonald Quotes

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life. It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.

I think everything bad that happens can be good in a way, if you're thinking about it after a while.

Although sometimes it's very difficult, if you're willing to look hard enough, you can find positives in every situation.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .

Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?