#mis

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. ↗

#inaction #pessimism #self-fulfilling-prophecy #pessimism

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that. ↗

— Peter Cameron

#pessimism #pessimism

It is possible for things to get worse without limit. ↗

— Dr. Herbert R.J. Grosch

#pessimism

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression. ↗

— John Derbyshire

#hedonish #selfishness #vanity #pessimism

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. ↗

— Robert M. Sapolsky

#pessimistic #self #pessimism

Holly is alive,' thought Foaly 'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#atlantis-complex #foaly-the-centaur #orion #dragons

You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right? ↗

— Alex Flinn

#alex

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though. ↗