“It’s like this old patchwork quilt my momma used to have. Each piece on that quilt meant something. And some of those pieces were the damn ugliest things you’ve ever seen. But some of the pieces were so beautiful they almost hurt my eyes to look at when I was a kid. That’s the best you can hope for, Danny. That your life turns out like that patchwork quilt. That you can add some bright, sparkling pieces to the dirty, stained ones you have so far. That in the end, the bright patches might take up more space on your quilt than the dark ones.”
~ Brooke McKinley, Shades of Gray
The sky this morning was filled with shades of grey. But I loved how the hole in the clouds above left a ribbon of light on the water below. Yes, the proverbial silver lining ….
I haven’t read ‘Shades of Gray’ and likely never will. But the above quote does give reason for contemplation. I’d like to think I’m a bit more optimistic about life. Optimism is a state of mind, we have the option of seeing things half full or half empty (or even a little of both, like that patchwork quilt).
Happy Friday friends …. May you find your glass half full today ༺♥༻
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Top 10 ‘Life-Half-Full’ Quotes
From TerryStarbucker.com
1. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
~ Kahlil Gibran
2. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
~ Thomas Paine
3. A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them.
~ Leonard Louis Levinson
4. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
~ James Branch Cabell
5. Optimism is the foundation of courage.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
6. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
~ Harry Truman
7. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
~ Colin Powell
8. For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
~ Sir Winston Churchill
9. You see things; and you say “why?” But I dream of things that never were, and I say “Why not?”
~ George Bernard Shaw
10. The tenth is actually a story my old boss used to tell just about once a month; it’s about two boys who one beautiful day were exploring their neighbor’s farm and came upon an empty barn that smelled of manure ….
The first boy said, “We got to get out of here, this smells horrible.“
The second boy said, “Oh boy, this is great – there must be horses around!“.
Yes, true optimists can even find a silver lining from manure!
