#pessimistic

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

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#attitude #optimistic #pessimistic #rather #than

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were. ↗

— Mary Shelley

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#change

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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#death #desperation #french-literature #life #paul-et-virginie