Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I don't have time to be depressed.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I'm an optimist at heart.

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.

I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.

Sadness is weak; I don't believe in weakness.

We all go through things in life, and it's just how you deal with it. Try to stay positive throughout the worst.

I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

'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 .

Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.