#optimism

What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl. ↗

— Jennifer Belle

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You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

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Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#cheerfulness #humor #merriment #optimism #pleasantness

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it. ↗

— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

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I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have. ↗

— Ana Monnar

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? ↗

— Voltaire

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I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. ↗

— William Faulkner

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I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#optimism

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible. ↗

— Robert Jordan

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