I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.
Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.
Tags: life pessimist perspective funny optimist grandma
In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel ReardonTags: pessimist time better optimist trip long-run proven-right
You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: life blessings pessimist perspective attitude troubles outlook optimist abundance richelle richelle-goodrich
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
Bernard MalamudTags: experience pessimist humanity understanding confusion understand optimist meliorist
―Look. This
room is the Seal Room. See the big picture of the seal? And that room is the Pony Room.‖
―Is there a pony?‖ Hunter was an optimist.
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The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.
Michael Bassey JohnsonTags: life truth success facts optimist humane good-seed offering philanthropist
The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….
Christian D. LarsonTags: best bright optimist brightness expects
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
Christian D. LarsonTags: pessimist best optimist expects proceeds
Wherever you go in the next
catastrophé
Be it sickroom, or prison,
or cemet’ry
Do not fear that your stay will be
solit’ry
Countless souls share your fate,
you’ll have company!
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The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.
Amit KalantriTags: humor inspirational optimism inspiration self-esteem inspirational-quotes humour self wit self-awareness government self-motivation self-belief optimist optimistic
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