“So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
“Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t this make you sad, Ferdinand?” He shrugged his shoulders. “Cynical, if you like. One is sad when one thinks about life—cynical… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“When you flood your mind with negativity, doubt, and inability, you interrupt, interfere, and block movement toward possibility. ” Excerpt From: Sarah… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“If you believe the world is conspiring against you it will just do that; you will help on by your pessimism action… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“There's actually a sort of comfort in the belief that things can only get worse. It gives one an appreciation for the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“What is more surprising is that, as surveys have found, working-class whites are the most pessimistic group in America. More pessimistic than… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“If you were determined to get enjoyment out of every moment, you would learn to do whatever it took. What it takes… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I… — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
We must push all negativity from our minds thru positive thinking and knowing that there is a higher power that will see… — Wanda Samples Copy Share Image
There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist.… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not a belief that things will get worse, either for the individual or the species—it is more profoundly a rejection… — Jacob Graham Copy Share Image
The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
You do not suffer from your beliefs. You suffer from your disbeliefs. If you have no hope inside of you, it's not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
“I won’t desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won’t confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport,… — Colton Haynes Copy Share Image
Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of… — Roberto Baggio Copy Share Image
Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
If there's anyone who makes you feel badly about yourself or anything that's bringing you down, you don't need it in your… — Stephanie McMahon Copy Share Image
