#optimism

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If you really believed that you'd lost your soul, then when I found you in Volterra, you would have realized immediately what was happening, instead of thinking we were both dead together. But you didn't―you said 'Amazing. Carlisle was right,'" I reminded him, triumphant. "There's hope in you, after all." For once, Edward was speechless. "So let's both just be hopeful, all right?" I suggested. "Not that it matters. If you stay, I don't need heaven." He got up slowly, and came to put his hand on either side of my face as he stared into my eyes. "Forever," he vowed, still a little staggered. "That's all I'm asking for," I said, and stretched up on my toes so that I could press my lips to his.


Stephenie Meyer


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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.


Michel Foucault


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It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.


John Wyndham


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We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of things and custom and history, and that this will happen to us, that we will experience it, that we — that is, I alone — will be the ones to see it. We always aspire, I suppose, to being the chosen ones, and it is unlikely otherwise that we would be prepared to live out the entire course of an entire life, which, however short or long, gradually gets the better of us.


Javier Marías


#exceptionalism #optimism #experience

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.


Helen Keller


#education #happiness #hope #inspiration #optimism

What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.


Jennifer Belle


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


Charlaine Harris


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


Richelle E. Goodrich


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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?


Voltaire


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I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.


Arthur C. Clarke


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