No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)
Jeffrey R. HollandThe spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
Orson F. WhitneyTags: optimism pessimism gospel
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
Philip K. DickTags: humor optimism pessimism universe irony schizophrenia
Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.
Rick StevesTags: optimism positivity
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
Jimmy BuffettTags: life optimism adversity cheerfulness
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
Alphonse KarrTags: optimism pessimism perspective roses gratitude misattributed-abraham-lincoln positive-thinking complaints glass-half-full thorns
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati RoyBut always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.
Edna FerberHe caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo was to say; it moves all the same. They were to be in a position to burn him if he would go on with it, with his preposterous nonsense about the earth moving round the sun, but he was to continue with the sublime assertion because there was something which he valued more than himself. The Truth. To recognize and to acknowledge What Is. That was the thing which man could do, which his English could do, his beloved, his sleeping, his now defenceless English. They might be stupid, ferocious, unpolitical, almost hopeless. But here and there, oh so seldome, oh so rare, oh so glorious, there were those all the same who would face the rack, the executioner, and even utter extinction, in the cause of something greater than themselves. Truth, that strange thing, the jest of Pilate's. Many stupid young men had thought they were dying for it, and many would continue to die for it, perhaps for a thousand years. They did not have to be right about their truth, as Galileo was to be. It was enough that they, the few and martyred, should establish a greatness, a thing above the sum of all they ignorantly had.
T.H. WhiteTags: truth optimism integrity humans
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