"Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst."
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"Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured."
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"Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from."
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"Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you."
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"The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism."
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"You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams."
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"Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure."
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"I was also built from delusional optimism and folly."
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"I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government."
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"Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie , concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man."
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"False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness."
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"Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are."
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"I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt."
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"Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions"
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"Optimism is evidence-based."
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"But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism."
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"The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience."
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"What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart."
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"Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy."
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"There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation."
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