- “Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.”
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Sapphire Belucci
- “The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.”
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Timothy Keller
- “You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.”
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Roy T. Bennett
- “Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “You have to open up to the world and learn optimism…Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”
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Jennifer Crusie,
Agnes and the Hitman
- “In a jaded world, it takes a certain type of person to remain a romantic – someone with resolute faith in goodness.”
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
- “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down”
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Charlie Chaplin
- “Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality… Mindsets Matter Most”
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Tony Dovale – ReThink Your Success Mindset tonydovalespeaks.com
- “Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
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Charles Dickens,
Oliver Twist
- “We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”
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Orson Scott Card,
Earth Unaware
- “It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often exaggerate the power of big media in order to frighten readers into taking action. I don’t disagree with their concern about media concentration, but the way they frame the debate is self-defeating insofar as it disempowers consumers even as it seeks to mobilize them. Far too much media reform rhetoric rests on melodramatic discourse about victimization and vulnerability, seduction and manipulation, “propaganda machines” and “weapons of mass deception”. Again and again, this version of the media reform movement has ignored the complexity of the public’s relationship to popular culture and sided with those opposed to a more diverse and participatory culture. The politics of critical utopianism is founded on a notion of empowerment; the politics of critical pessimism on a politics of victimization. One focuses on what we are doing with media, and the other on what media is doing to us. As with previous revolutions, the media reform movement is gaining momentum at a time when people are starting to feel more empowered, not when they are at their weakest.”
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Henry Jenkins,
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
- “Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, doing as you say you would do.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the expected behavior response of a well-fed people.”
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Nathaniel Philbrick,
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- “We are not going to die.” Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. “We’re not?” “No. And do you know why?” He shook his head. “Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I’m too stubborn to die.” I hauled on the shirt even harder. “And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
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Jim Butcher,
Dead Beat
- “Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget who you are.”
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Roy T. Bennett
- “Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.”
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augusten burroughs
- “Be the positive impact on the lives of others.”
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Roy T. Bennett
- “Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.”
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Roy T. Bennett
- “Life is all a green old English garden and time an endless summer afternoon.”
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Henry James,
A Passionate Pilgrim
- “When you begin to do what matters most to you, you let go of preconceived notions of who you are which have been fostered by others and start creating the person you most want to be.”
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Roy T. Bennett
- “The Present day optimists invent a lieand the pessimists hide the truth”
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irrfan ishaq
- “I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people’s mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion of someone, some situation or overall way of living.”
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Arti Honrao
- “Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.”
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Krishna Udayasankar,
Kurukshetra
- “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful.”
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Abhishek S,
KARMA
- “Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude”
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Abhishek Shukla,
KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Those who believe the axiom that “Ignorance is bliss” are the ones who only discovered its true meaning after the bliss turned to piss.”
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Kevin Ansbro