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Optimism and Pessimism
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Optimism is the sunshine of the soul. ~Old saying
In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. ~Abraham–Hicks
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. ~Henry Rollins
To know the disillusionments of life, and to come enchanted still... ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "A Soul's Faring: LXXXI," A Soul's Faring, 1921
Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it'll be too dark to read. ~Author unknown
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ~George F. Will, The Leveling Wind
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
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan
An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~Susan J. Bissonette
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ~Harry Truman
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet
Pessimists—Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust. ~Paul Chatfield
I have matured into someone I never dreamed I would become: an unbridled optimist who sees the glass as always full of something. It may be half full of water, precious in itself, but in the other half there's a rainbow that could exist only in the vacant space. ~Alice Walker, "Preface: Learning to Dance," Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, 2010
Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. ~Kin Hubbard
Optimists are nostalgic about the future. ~Chicago Tribune
Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted. ~Drew Deyoung
I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life — even when it's a kick in the teeth. ~Polly Adler
But then, I daresay insects are rarely pessimists, because they don't live long enough. It is only the human young that are cynical, and they recover quickly, as if their pangs were growing pains, or cosmic colic. ~Dorothy Scarborough, "Entomology on a Country Porch," From a Southern Porch, 1919
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ~Douglas Jerrold, "Meeting Troubles Half-Way," 1859
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ~Daniel L. Reardon
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. ~Lucimar Santos de Lima
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days — you just have to be a little more cockeyed. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure. ~Elbert Hubbard
True optimists polish the bright side’s halo. ~Terri Guillemets
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. ~Helen Rowland
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative. ~Author Unknown
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ~Oscar Wilde
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. ~Walt Disney
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!" ~Lemony Snicket
Optimist: "Okay, I admit the situation is temporarily hopeless." ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com, 2015
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~Oscar Wilde
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ~Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972
an optimist is a guy
that has never had
much experience.
~Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel, 1927
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. ~Author Unknown
After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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