Quotes by Optimism Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. Ambrose Bierce optimism optimistic white Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured. Andre Gide optimism sides profound In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction. Andy Andrews optimism regret new-day Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things. Angela Carter optimism creativity rabbits To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria. Anita Roddick optimism running fun I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion. Anna Sui optimism fashion feels ... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death. Anne Perry optimism brain heart It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things. Anne Rice optimism simple giving Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. Antonio Gramsci pessimism optimism spirit Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Arnold Bennett pessimism pessimist optimism How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre. Aron Nimzowitsch optimism fate knights The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. Arthur Lynch optimism sleep people Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. Arthur Lynch cheerful optimism people Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared. Arthur Lynch soil optimism flower I was also built from delusional optimism and folly. A.S. King delusional folly optimism What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism. Assata Shakur impressed cuba optimism If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. Aung San Suu Kyi optimism have-faith want I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me. Ayelet Waldman left optimism 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. Barbara Ehrenreich optimism dream thinking Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. Barbara Johnson optimism gears patience «1234567891011»