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Letter "P" » pessimism
«Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.»
«People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
Attitude,
Elderly,
Optimism,
Youth
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«My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists»
Author: Edmond Rostand
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
pessimism, Pessimists, sincerity, suspecting, to the point
«Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
deals, pessimism, prospects, wait on, waste of time
«Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.»
«I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.»
«Pessimism - Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.»
Author: Larry Kersten
(Author, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
cloud, each year, hundreds, kills, lightning, lining, pessimism, silver, silver lining
«Every person has the power to make others happy.Some do it simply by entering a room --others by leaving the room.Some individuals leave trails of gloom;others, trails of joy.Some leave trails of hate and bitterness;others, trails of love and harmony.Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism;others trails of faith and optimism.Some leave trails of criticism and resignation;others trails of gratitude and hope.What kind of trails do you leave?»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
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«Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.»
«A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.»
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