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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
-Margery Allingham
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
-Jane Austen
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn
-Lucille Ball
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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
-Ambrose Bierce
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An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
-Ambrose Bierce
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
-Francis H. Bradley
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My sun sets to rise again.
-Robert Browning
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Optimism is the foundation of courage.
-Nicholas Murray Butler
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
-Albert Camus
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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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 Every decision you make is a mistake.
-Edward Dahlberg
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A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.
-Frank Dane
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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
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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
-Emile Durkheim
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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
-Havelock Ellis
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
-B. C. Forbes
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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
-Robert Frost
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
-Antonio Gramsci
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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
-Thich Nhat Hanh
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Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
-Ron Jaworski
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
-Milan Kundera
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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
-Ring Lardner
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Books about Optimism
