#optimism

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#boundless #busy #complete #creativity #devotion

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#flourishes #lunatic #most #optimism #place

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#character #comes #comic #even #failure

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#between #choose #cowardice #despair #need

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#pessimism #spirit #will

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#atomic bomb #bomb #cold #cold war #continue

Sometimes it feels like you can finally slip out of the door, smiling at the memory of that serene expressions of your beloved ones eyes. ↗

— Anshuma Sharma

#experience #happiness #joy #life #love

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#beauty #optimism #quality #weirdness #beauty

If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes. ↗

— Paula Huntley

#courage

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well. ↗

— Roméo Dallaire

#optimism #change