Wishlist Optimists Gifts

"I guess no car for me this Christmas either."

'Chocolate milk, carrot cake,candied yams...see, there's a solution to everything!'

Road Forks in the Road: No Way and Yes Way.

'Oh for heaven's sake, you're a cow. Just eat grass and be happy.'

"I feel like that I've been given a unique oppurtunity to speak out on issues."

Six Thinking Hats

"There are no such things as problems, only opportunities."

"I think I can". (train)

"Using worst case scenario as a baseline, I consider this data quite encouraging."

"It all looks fine to me."

'Actually, my mom was the first to notice he'd lost that new boyfriend smell!'

Untold Love Stories. The Shadow and Pollyanna. It's no use, Lamont, you know what evil lurks in the hearts of men and I believe there's good in everybody.

"I thought those D's meant dedicated!"

'We had no contingency plan for things going right.'

'The good news is that from now on I belong to a very rare species. There aren't many personnel managers who create their own pink slip.'

"Don't you worry about me. I always land on my feet."

Wish upon a star (well it's worth a try).

"I just think things will work out for the best, and by the best I mean me."

Pollyanna, the Hamster

"Today stocks rose on the news that 'down' is a temporary state of mind."

Doug reasoned that things could be worse...but just how much worse...he wasn't sure??

"Oh, don't mind us... We just want to make sure it's really dead."

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. That's a relief! How much can they expect out of your on your first day?

"Someday our robots will have all our anxieties for us."

Ahhh, spring baseball.

Flower growing from a bomb.

"His face may be in the gutter, but his bum's looking up at the stars."

Man replaces tank sign with deer sign

"I've tried to keep one in the past, but it always flew away when my husband came home. So I thought I'd try this method!"

"Look on the bright side, you never know what's round the corner."

Tom's last day.

"Well, this must be as big as I'm supposed to get."

Happiness

Research -Development - Wishful Thinking

'The key is not to take yourself too seriously: You have to be able to laugh at yourself...'