#opt

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now? ↗

— Jim Butcher

#optimism #pessimism #thomas-raith #victory

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#optimism

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. ↗

— Voltaire

#optimism

When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes! ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#optimism

Things are always better in the morning. ↗

— Harper Lee

#renewal #optimism

Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos? ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#optimism

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#care #choice #empty #full #glass

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day ↗

— Virgil

#optimism

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#hope #resurrection #optimism

تشاؤمُ العقل .. تفاؤلُ الإرادة ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#pessimism #politics #will #pessimism