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• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Stupidity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.488, Wordsworth Editions

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• The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

  Robert Breault

  Optimistic, Average, Long

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• Each day provides its own gifts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Gratitude, Philosophical

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• Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Spirit, Pessimism

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• There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Law, Religion

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Food, Optimistic

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

  Harry Nilsson

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Positive Thinking, Kwanzaa, True Joy

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• Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relationship, Thinking, Reason

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.52, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Life Is Too Short, Optimistic

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• One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Climbing Trees, Birch Trees

  "Birches" l. 59 (1916)

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• Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hurt, Optimistic, Self

  "Stephen Colbert Commencement Address". Transcript of remarks to graduating seniors at Knox College, departments.knox.edu. June 2006.

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• One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

  Voltaire

  Optimistic, One Day, Today

  "Voltaire: Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne". Book by Voltaire (translated), 1756.

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• The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Good Morning, Optimistic, Night

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.374, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Believe, Fall

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• The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

  Hilary Mantel

  Life, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Bring Up the Bodies". Book by Hilary Mantel, May 8, 2012.

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• Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Christian D. Larson

  Spiritual, Anger, Worry

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• It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

  Mark Twain

  Sometimes, Pessimist, Optimist

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• Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

  George Carlin

  Glasses, People, Perspective

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• Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Fall, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.584, Courier Corporation

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• Faith and optimism are contagious.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Faith, Contagious

  Thom S. Rainer (2001). “Surprising Insights from the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them”, p.197, Harper Collins

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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

  Uplifting, Mistake, Moving Forward

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• The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Perspective, Perception

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• A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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