Some people are just not right in the brain until they totally sabotage your happiness. — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God. — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. — Anonymous 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
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“How many pessimists does it take to change a lightbulb? Never mind. Nobody would get the joke anyway.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Refusing to have a child is the highest degree of rebellion, after suicide; one of the best uses of the mind; and… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on,… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point… — Yuna Copy Share Image
“We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Men look to love and life for everything; they receive a little less than that; they imagine that they have received nothing:… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It’s true that many overly negative people actually fear letting go of their negativity, and it’s because it has become a part… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Whenever I am faced with someone spreading negativity in my relationship, I remember the old saying, 'Misery loves company.' I am also… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Evil should not be, Detective Vera. Truly never can be. But in defining it as such, an inherent human bond with negativity… — John Claude Smith Copy Share Image
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“To have a simple, untroubled faith, you must keep your spiritual innocence. That requires avoiding cynicism and criticism. This is the day… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Be aware of negativity but do not let it take root in the sinews of your creative spirit.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“The whole world has constantly wandered around in ‘negativity’ and died. This ‘Akram’ [science] is a fine ‘positive’ path.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening. It just stops you from enjoying the good — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being a realist and a pessimist and an optimist. I think I'm way more of a realist. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. — Ouida Copy Share Image
It is hurtful to read things which are not true. I am learning to focus only on my work and not pay… — Kapil Sharma Copy Share Image
“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image