"Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism."
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"Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional."
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"As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead."
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"Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject."
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"Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior."
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"There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested."
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"We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism."
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"While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope."
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"Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle."
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"L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism"
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"Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible."
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"Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair."
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"Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious."
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"If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be."
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"We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward."
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"My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world."
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"Surround yourself with optimistic people."
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"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
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"I approach every problem with optimism."
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"May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism."
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