Optimistically Encouraging Quotes

#1. I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. I remember one of my writers on 'Weeds' got a new apartment and didn't get cable or a dish. He just hooked his computer up to the TV. I was like, 'This is it. This is how it's happening.'

Jenji Kohan

#3. Find out for yourself your unique features

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Don't be fooled into thinking that love is special. That it'll fill you up forever. Anyone can fall in love, but only you can make the art you were born for. And that's the kind of happiness that lasts.

J.C. Lillis

#5. I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

Chris Colfer

#6. There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

Norman Mailer

#7. There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Jonathan Franzen