Bright Side Quotes

• The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

  Samuel Johnson

  Optimistic, Positive Thinking, Years

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• When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best... And...always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of life.

  Graham Chapman

  Light, Giving, Looks

  "Fictional character: Lead Singer Crucifee". "Life of Brian", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Feel Good, Feelings

  "Don't Give Up on ObamaCare Yet, Republicans" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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• Always look on the bright side of life.

  Graham Chapman

  Positive Attitude, Positivity, Good As It Gets

  Graham Chapman (2001). “Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled". Book by Marion Morris, 1917.

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  Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

  Willie Nelson

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

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  It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1417, Barbour Publishing

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• If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

  Christina Dodd

  Sides, Dull, Polish

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• No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.

  Zig Ziglar

  Optimism, Sides, Eyesight

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• I just look at the high and bright side of things

  LL Cool J

  Looks, Sides

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• Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Unbearable, Sides

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• Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

  William Goldman

  Adventure, People, Lucky

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

  Lev Yilmaz

  People, Looks, Attention

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• It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Disappointment, Knowing, Looks

  Ellen Glasgow (0101). “The Sheltered Life”, p.199, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.

  Megan Smith

  Remembers Everything, Everything Happens For A Reason, Looks

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• If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.

  Shelley Shepard Gray

  Needs, Dull, Sides

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• Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

  Stuart Duncan

  Beautiful, Mean, Dark

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• Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.

  Samuel Smiles

  Exercise, Dark, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1868). “Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles”, p.391

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• We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

  Sonia Braga

  Dream, Character, Dark

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• I try to look on the bright side, but it really hurts my eyes.

  Dana Gould

  Hurt, Eye, Trying

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• When I'm in emotional pain, I usually embrace the pain, cry, and let it all out. Then I try to look on the bright side.

  Jacqui Holland

  Pain, Emotional, Trying

  "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

  Dorothy Dix

  Life, Gratitude, Cheer

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• I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.

  Craig Ferguson

  Summer, Jobs, Teenager

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• I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.

  Alli Simpson

  Glasses, Looks, Half

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