"Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come."

Optimism, Hope, Resilience, Perspective

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"Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come."

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"Win them with your infectious optimism and burning smile."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Optimism, Smile, Positivity, Winning

"Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

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"The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism."

Brian May, English Musician

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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, American Writer

Optimism, Events, Years

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

Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist

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"I decline to accept the end of man."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."

Wilma Rudolph, American Athlete

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"Comedy is acting out optimism."

Robin Williams, American Comedian

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"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."

Eric Sevareid, American Journalist

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"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

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"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

Democracy

"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."

Peace

"Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty."

Character

"The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude."

Mindfulness

"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."

Liberty

"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment."

Judgment

"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three."

Defiance

"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

Government

"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."

Politics

"The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch."

Awareness