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Life doesn't end just because someone leaves.

Sanu Sharma

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell The Silver Stallion (1926)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

Helen Keller Optimism (1903)

Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.

Shimon Peres

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!

Edward Everett Hale Ten Times One is Ten (1870)

For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.

Kent Beck Extreme Programming Explained (2000)

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Thích Nhất Hạnh The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (1999)

Optimism is the belief that things will get better. Hope is the faith that, together, we can make things better.

Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks The Dignity of Difference (2003)

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness.

Eckhart Tolle A New Earth (2005)

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Milan Kundera The Joke (1967)

Had optimism run that far ahead of common sense?

Harry Turtledove Southern Victory (1997)

I believed all along,
one day
everyone would go mad
just to see me sane.

Suman Pokhrel

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

Hyman G. Rickover

Always look on the bright side of life.

Eric Idle

Don't ever become a pessimist … a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

Optimism is morbid. It is if possible even more morbid than pessimism.

G. K. Chesterton

I am an irrepressible optimist, but I always base my optimism on solid facts.

Mahatma Gandhi

This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Rex Stout

I came out of my mom’s stomach thinking I was going to own America.

Caprice Bourret

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