How to be an Optimist Rather than a Pessimist

Someone once said that a pessimist is someone who can look at the land of milk and honey and see only calories and cholesterol. Who, when he sees the light at the end of the tunnel, rushes ahead to blow it out.
Never forget that the good life is not an automatic any more than a bad life is an automatic. It depends not only on which birds fly over your head, but which ones you allow to make a nest in your hair.
Life is a farm where we harvest what we plant. Cultivate cowardice, doubt, discontent and pessimism and these will haunt your days. Cultivate courage, faith and positive thinking and these will happily be yours for a lifetime.
Life truly is not what it is but what you make it. It may not be all you want, but it is all you have, so stick a daisy in your hat and be happy. Heck, don’t stop with a daisy. Plant a rose bush,. Cultivate an orchid.
Actually, be a mobile nursery!