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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. — Joseph Joubert
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters. — Louis L'Amour
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is… — Robert Breault
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected… — Saint Basil
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true… — Oscar Wilde
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. [So when you are crying remember also to anticipate and look for the rainbow.] — John Vance Cheney
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in… — C.S. Lewis
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. [When you lose one blessing, anticipate, look and work… — Violeta Parra
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if… — Henry David Thoreau
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next… — Robert Collier
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be… — Klas Pontus Arnoldson
[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race! — Ernest Hemingway
To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. — Peter Medawar
Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime! — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
Find your own dream! Keep this dream and take good care of it and then sometime you will accomplish something [and feel the intense satisfaction… — Koichi Tanaka
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to… — Shimon Peres
Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way. — Matthieu Ricard
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that… — Matthieu Ricard
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. — Harriet Martineau
You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something… — Alex Kapranos
The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you… — Mike Sherman

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