Hope Quote by Adrienne Rich Download Open image “It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.” — Adrienne Rich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hope Important Long Long term Optimism Pessimism Short term Term
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism. — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can… — Christopher Peterson Copy Share Image
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“too—I realized that my only hope was to give up the life that had been, in order to make room for the life that… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I am at a point in my life where everything I have worked for starts to look like a burden, a weight on my… — Simone Abou Samra Copy Share Image
