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 StegnerTags: optimism cooperation environment individualism conservation american-west
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 ColferTags: inspirational optimism perception
Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.
David LevithanTags: inspirational optimism love
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 ColbertTags: optimism pessimism cynicism
People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is.
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.
An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices.
When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.
Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!
Tags: optimism pessimism energy pessimist hope apple choices realism realist apples optimist optimistic annoying bobbing energetic
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra PoundTags: fear optimism poetry despair difficulty pound cynicisim
Dan beranikanlah dirimu membuktikan kebenaran yang kau benci!
Bram StokerTags: optimism
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion
VoltaireTags: optimism status-quo illusion
Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.
Hyman G. RickoverBeing an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition.
Alisa SteinbergTags: optimism idealism realists
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