#optimism

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load. ↗

— John Piper

#optimism-q #wonder #beauty

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. ↗

— Lucille Ball

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If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes. ↗

— Paula Huntley

#courage

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well. ↗

— Roméo Dallaire

#optimism #change

Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition. ↗

— Alisa Steinberg

#optimism #realists #courage

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me… ↗

— Helen Keller

#gratitude #hope #optimism #experience

I am nobody but sometime I feel I am somebody but I don't know who I am ↗

— Safiul Hasan

#cry #crying #experience #happiness #joy

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#hope #optimism #death