Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that… — Michael Lerner 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
I'm always naturally a bit of a pessimist. And my mom is sorta the opposite. — John Collins Copy Share Image
I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Fans are crazy, so I try not to pay attention to most of the negativity that they bring up. — Chi Chi DeVayne Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“The genius of cynicism is that it is a voice in your ear it does not usually hang around long enough to… — Dick Keyes Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“In spite of his painful encounters with the world and its problems, Solomon does not recommend either pessimism or cynicism. Rather, he… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
The internet's weird. It's kind of harvesting the negativity. I think negativity has always been out there, but because people are hiding… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Doug Dandridge Copy Share Image
“Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers. — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
