Where the phrase comes from · Card no. 4088
From look on the bright side, which is about lighting before it is about mood: the sunlit face of a hill or a building as against the shaded one. It has been advice, and slightly irritating advice, since the 1800s.
No such place exists, which has never stopped anyone from going. Every card here is an original painting of a phrase, free to send by email or by link.