Lunatic Quote by Havelock Ellis Download Open image “The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.” — Havelock Ellis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lunatic Optimism
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. — Alice Thomas Ellis 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 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
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
“Ruut Veenhoven, keeper of the database, got it right when he said: “Happiness requires livable conditions, but not paradise.” We humans are imminently adaptable.… — Eric Weiner 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
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
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I remember I played Birmingham and I'd been awake for about a week and I was walking about like a raving lunatic. — Gerry Cinnamon Copy Share Image
Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment… — David Stove Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
