#optimism

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ↗

— Mildred Barthel

#happiness #optimism #attitude

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. ↗

— Louise Brown

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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

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Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise ↗

— Tracy L. Conway

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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

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