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- “Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.”
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Michelle Obama
- “Optimism is informed hope. You’ve been given something, you’ve accepted it, and understood it, and then you have to pass it on”
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Michael J Fox
- “We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there’s always another bottom underneath the one we’re laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there’s always endless opportunity above us.”
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “Change brings opportunity.”
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Nido R. Qubein
- “Life is a do-it-yourself project.”
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Abhishek Shukla,
KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Daring life, optimistic living.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over a trivial point and be thankful you have something to drink.”
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Richelle E. Goodrich,
Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
- “Dragging around pain and attachments from the past can jeopardize your health, your relationships, and your happiness. It can undermine your motivation, discourage your progress, and make everything in life harder. What can you release to simplify your life, lighten your load and find more joy?”
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Susan C. Young
- “If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.”
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Katie Kacvinsky,
Awaken
- “A shadow cast in the light of day would glow like a silhouette woven from fireflies in the darkness of the night.”
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Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- “When you yearn to create positive change, stop focusing on your old stories. If you hope to transform your life from the inside out and become a new improved version of your former self, refocus on what you want rather than what you don’t”
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Susan C. Young
- “People are successful because they think and act like successful people.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “It is the size of my vision and not the size of the challenges that will dictate the size of my accomplishments.”
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Craig D Lounsbrough
- “If we refuse to acknowledge our wrongs then opportunities will remain invisible and significant grains of truth obscured.”
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Erwin D. Maramat
- “Don’t stop after you reach your goals; aim to surpass them!”
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Jen Selinsky,
Life Quotes
- “Everywhere the man who alters things begins by liking things. And the real explanation of this success of the optimistic reformer, of this failure of the pessimistic reformer, is, after all, an explanation of sufficient simplicity. It is because the optimist can look at wrong not only with indignation, but with a startled indignation. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. The Court of Chancery is indefensible—like mankind. The Inquisition is abominable—like the universe. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action. The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.”
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G.K. Chesterton,
All Things Considered
- “Somewhere between handling challenges, taking care of business, and juggling responsibilities, you may have lost pieces of yourself which you long to recover. Perhaps they were buried and forgotten long ago. Rediscovering is more than just being reminded of these golden treasures. It is being able to excavate your riches by pulling them out, polishing them off, and allowing them to shine again.”
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Susan C. Young
- “We’re living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress and change… are absolutely tremendous. Anybody who tells you that we’re running out of resources or in a terrible mess–they are idiots. We can’t run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something. To say we are running out of resources is like saying we are running out of brain cells.”
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Robert Anton Wilson
- “I am chic, sleek, and so unique.”
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Charles F. Glassman,
Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
- “To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, “surprise” is the optimistic solution.”
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Amit Kalantri
- “Then I realize that words like “optimism” and “hope” which appear in all those self-help books that claim they’ll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.”
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Paulo Coelho,
Adultery
- “Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.”
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Hubert Martin
- “Those who win never give up; those who give up never win.”
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Roy T. Bennett
- “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “Well, without at least some optimism writing anything is impossible — you have to believe that someone out there will be reading what you write. Even more so for science fiction for me — we’re thinking and writing about the future, so to a greater or lesser extent we’re thinking that there will be a future to participate in, and that people will be there to tell us what we got right and what we got wrong. Even dystopian literature often trades in hope of some form — people fighting against the dystopia, for example. There will always be specific counter-examples, but I think generally science fiction has optimism baked in. We believe in the future, even if there’s a long slog between where we are now and where we will go.”
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John Scalzi
- “A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists. If death does take him, he is probably unaware of the fact; it amounts to no more for him than a shock or a spasm.”
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Marguerite Yourcenar,
Memoirs of Hadrian
- “She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the page. And within those scratched words, those small, sharp incisions, an image can be seen and you’re left to wonder what, in the end, this all could mean.”
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Hubert Martin