“a pessimist finds difficulty at every opportunity but an optimist finds opportunity in every difficulty” — Merc Copy Share Image
Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Because the bad news is worse than you think it is, the good news is better than you think it is. — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there. — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
“The cynical ones are the best companions. But the best of all are the cynical ones when they are still devout; or… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.” — Erskine Childers 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
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust,… — Brando Skyhorse Copy Share Image
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw.” — Maloy Krishna Dhar Copy Share Image
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
“Negativity is like burning plastic: while destroying itself, it annoys everyone with its stench.” — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
“I can’t think of a more misused phrase than ‘I can’t,’ except in this instance.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
My entire life I've proved that I'm able to overcome people's negativity toward me. — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well… — Rachel Kadish 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
