They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“motivation to perform well and pessimistic expectations are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they seem to get along famously.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the… — Amos Tversky Copy Share Image
“Negativity is toxic. If you get busy celebrating life you will have no time for it. If for some reason, you're not… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
People ask me if I believe in forever and I can't help but sit back and laugh because with the way my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for… — Ashley Wagner Copy Share Image
“For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Most people desperately desire to believe that they are part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally am content to see everything in… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“But regardless of his motive, words can be destructive. As Proverbs 18:21 points out, life and death are in the power of… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
“All transitions involve leaving a consolidated self behind before any new self can take its place. At the 4-5 shift this means… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
“You face the reality, whether it’s hopeful or hopeless. What’s your alternative? To lie down and die? Sometimes people ask me, are… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“Preserve the part of you that's still human. Avoid falling into ecstatic raptures and trying to impose the Light on people when… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
