Optimism Quote by Havelock Ellis Download Open image “The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum” — Havelock Ellis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Optimism
“Optimism is a deadly vice of gigantic proportions lodged into the human psyche by Satan. It is the enemy of reality. We see a… — Tom Levine Copy Share Image
There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime… — Cliff Robertson Copy Share Image
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
“optimistically – get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning, and are spared the terror… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
The late 1990s were really a moment of still tremendous hope and optimism about the relationship between Russia and the United States. — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hope is not mere optimism; rather, it is moving forward in anticipation of redemption in spite of the improbability of rescue.” — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.” — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image