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• The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Awful, Waste

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• One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

  Wallace Stegner

  Home, Quality, Pessimistic

  "Wallace Stegner, the Rural West, and Me" by John McChesney, web.stanford.edu. July 05, 2011.

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• A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

  Eoin Colfer

  Moon, Monkeys, Bananas

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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, Self, Optimism

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

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• It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Writing, Paradise

  Ezra Pound (2003). “Poems and Translations”

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• When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.

  Paul Hawken

  Odds, Order, Data

  "Paul Hawken: programming a new operating system for civilization" by James Epstein-Reeves and Ellen Weinreb, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.

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• As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

  Stephen King

  Basketball, Player, Men

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• You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

  Charlaine Harris

  Love, Life, Honey

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.29, Penguin

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• It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Business, Adventure, Optimism

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• Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Hope, Spiritual

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Things are always better in the morning.

  Harper Lee

  Morning, Positivity, Tkam

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• Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

  Tom Stoppard

  Rosencrantz And Guildenstern, Surviving, Ifs

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.106, Faber & Faber

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• I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Optimism, Criticism, Pessimistic

  "A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 1987.

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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, Thinking, Optimism

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

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• Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

  Helen Keller

  Cheer, Giving Up, Failure

  Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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• Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Self, Optimism, Busy

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• As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

  Bill Gates

  Positive, Optimism, Looks

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• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”

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• Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

  Richard DeVos

  Positive, Smile, Hope

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• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Positive, Attitude

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• Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.

  Art Linkletter

  Positive, Attitude, Feel Better

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• Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Business, Mistake, Decisions You Make

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• Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

  Christian D. Larson

  Health, Optimism, Prosperity

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Women

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.544, The Floating Press

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Stars, Science

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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