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Optimism
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
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“There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”
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“... she never believed that 'nothing could be done.' Something could always be done; that is what people were for.”
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“One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.”
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“... scientists now believe that everything is endowed with an innate intelligence that knows what you say, think, and feel about it. If you speak of things, people, and conditions in a positive, prosperous way, you gain their subconscious cooperation. Whereas, if you criticize your world, you repel its blessings and attract only negative, limited conditions into your life.”
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“It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realizations. ... Dreams go out and fulfill themselves; wishes need only to be articulated.”
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“... I always believe that things are going to work out. It's in my nature. Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it.”
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“Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.”
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“The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable ... ”
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“She was an artist in optimism.”
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“It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ... ”
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“Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, 'I'm all right so far'?”
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“... an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.”
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“I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.”
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“Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.”
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“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
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“We all take refuge in the optimism which is typical of this great creative nation. Every situation has found us unprepared.”
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“How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.”
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“... she was one of those who always see spring in a single sparrow.”
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“Optimism was often merely an indisposition to face unpleasant truths ...”
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“Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.”
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“Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, / The inner half of every cloud / Is bright and shining: / I therefore turn my clouds about, / And always wear them inside out / To show the lining.”
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“When things come to the worst, they generally mend.”
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“Grab your coat, and get your hat / Leave your worry on the doorstep / Just direct your feet / To the sunny side of the street.”
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“Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.”
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“I am by nature a worried optimist ...”
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“My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.”
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“Rose-colored spectacles the hopeful wear ...”
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“'Twixt optimist and pessimist / The difference is droll: / The optimist sees the doughnut, / The pessimist, the hole.”
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“Although optimism is the result of an illusion, it is a desirable distortion of reality.”