#pessimism

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. ↗

— William James

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No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf) ↗

— Jeffrey R. Holland

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

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Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill. ↗

— Stuart Hill

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The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

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Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin. ↗

— P.D. James

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You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism! ↗

— Matthew Quick

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