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- “Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?”
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C.D. Payne,
Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, Book One
- “Leaps of faith tend to favour those with long legs.”
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Fennel Hudson,
Fine Things – Fennel’s Journal – No. 8
- “Optimism is letting your vast possibilities flow freely!”
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Positively Sherry
- “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
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Victor Hugo,
Les Misérables
- “A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.”
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
The Confessions of a Misfit
- “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
- “Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “Be warned – Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.”
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Brandon Sanderson,
The Final Empire
- “Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.”
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Richard M. Weaver,
Ideas Have Consequences
- “See the good in everything, and the best of it will find you.”
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Matthew Tysz,
We Are Voulhire: A New Arrival under Great Skies
- “Always let your heart sing; no musical talent needed.”
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Benny Bellamacina,
Piddly Poems for Children
- “Sure, I had been accused of murder by my family and was wrapped up in a bizarre investigation, but there were such cute boys involved. Hey, I try to look on the bright side.”
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Tamara Summers,
Never Bite a Boy on the First Date
- “What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else’s opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people’s opinions control you.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine”
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Benny Bellamacina,
Piddly Poems for Children
- “Life is about the moments you create,that you can keep with you forever.After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.”
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Abhishek Shukla,
Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
- “Even when you don’t see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye”
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Benny Bellamacina,
Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
- “I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective,”
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Tim Tebow
- “The present,the presence:a present.”
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Dahi Tamara Koch,
Within the event horizon: poetry prose
- “Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “I try to see only the good in him; I try.”
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Veronica Roth,
Divergent
- “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
- “I’m so optimistic my blood type is B Positive”
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DeWayne Owens
- “The International Date Line is the beginning in Eden, the place where God taught our common ancestor to count the days with the week.”
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Jorge Pablo Guevara,
Proof of God in the International Date Line
- “The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one’s pessimism had led to an ethos of fear, and the other’s pessimism had led to a noisy, fractious disdain for Everything-That-Was. One shrank, the other flailed. One toed the line, the other crossed it out. Much of the time they were at loggerheads, and because Willy found it so easy to shock his mother, he rarely wasted an opportunity to provoke an argument. If only she’d the wit to back off a little, he probably wouldn’t have been so insistent about making his points. Her antagonism inspired him, pushed him into ever more extreme positions, and by the time he was ready to leave the house and go off to college, he had indelibly cast himself in his chosen role: as malcontent, as rebel, as outlaw poet prowling the gutters of a ruined world.”
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Paul Auster,
Timbuktu
- “In the overwhelming demands of daily life, you get bombarded with continuous distractions, expectations and responsibilities. Is it no wonder that you may lose touch with simple pleasures and life lessons which you once knew, but have since forgotten? What do you need to be reminded of to live your life with purpose and passion?”
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Susan C. Young
- “I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.”
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Madeleine L’Engle,
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
- “Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.”
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Bernard Beckett,
Genesis
- “Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.”
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Vasily Grossman,
Life and Fate
- “You know, if you’re hopeful, if you’re even a little bit happy about something that might happen, it doesn’t affect the outcome. You could still give yourself a period of optimism, even if it all falls apart.”
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Michael Cunningham,
The Snow Queen
- “Every decision, every single one, comes with a price to pay. It means you chose one thing over another, always. Whether you chose right or wrong, that cost remains constant. It’s a permanent life tax. That’s where taxes come from.”
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Hubert Martin