Optimist Quotes
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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.
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I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.
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I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
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Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.
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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
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Over the past ten years, I've processed a lot. I'm still processing. And there is more to be done. But I'm very proud of the person I am today. I'm proud to be gay. I'm proud to be a reckless optimist. I'm proud to keep learning and sharing what I've learned. I'm proud to be a work in progress.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.
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I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.
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Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.
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I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
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Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.
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A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.
