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"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
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"The world seems to want us to be sad and angry because bad things frequently happen. But I say we should feel the opposite. We should be happy and cheerful because good things happen. We should be delighted to see the sun rise and stars glow and rainbows color stormy skies. We should savor every simple breath and eat each meal with gratitude. We should slumber in sweet dreams and relish moments of laughter and love. We should take more notice of the joys and kindnesses that do exist, still dictating the actions of millions of good people all over the world. Life is filled with pleasant moments, not just grief. We should be happy because this is true."
"Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism."
"But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best."
"What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down."
"I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody."
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
"The world turned itself into a better place around him."
"Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go."
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"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all."
"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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