#optimism

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#between #each #fire #lights #optimism

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#fun #get #optimism #out #pay

At times what you expect and what happens don’t match. The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole new way..! ↗

— Sujit Lalwani

#expectations #life #motivation #optimism #positivity

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin. ↗

— Voltaire

#pessimism #satire #life

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#idiom #optimism #humor

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#cheerfulness #humor #merriment #optimism #pleasantness

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it. ↗

— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

#pessimism #pessimism

Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #optimism #quip #simon-lewis #humor

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#america #between #brighter #commitment #contrast

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#bill #bill clinton #calls #clinton #contagious