“Think better than bitter; you are far better than bitter!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
I do everything with a purpose, and I don't really pay attention to the negativity. — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
If you think of failure in your mind, you are one step farther away from success. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know. — K'naan Copy Share Image
I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the… — Jennifer Bosworth 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 think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going… — George will Copy Share Image
Books of yesterday are often criticised as offering an unrealistic Pollyanna view of the world. But the grim 'realities' we are forcing… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
“Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and… — Mike Zimmer Copy Share Image
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“I think it's better if you rely on the fact you belong together, instead of having to reinvent your togetherness every day.… — Eva Heller Copy Share Image
As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will discover a nice benefit: your everyday, ordinary life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner… — Kyra Gregory Copy Share Image
“When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“When you always stay positive, you least worry yourself over anything at all! You only take lessons from negative moments of life,… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
