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• So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

  Roberto Bolano

  Cheer, Honesty, Fun

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• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.

  Bernard Beckett

  Fear, Years, Differences

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• 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

  Sacrifice, Needs, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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• In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Past, Night

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.2, Open Road Media

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• Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

  Charles Dickens

  Real, Heart, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.256

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• I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else's, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me).

  Peter Cameron

  Clueless, Thinking, Opposites

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

  Warren Ellis

  Suicide, Bad Ass, World

  "Transmetropolitan". Comic book series by Warren Ellis, 1997–2002.

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• THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon. The original Perseus was one of the only heros in the greek myths who got a happy ending. The others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods. My mom hoped i would inherit Perseus's luck. Judging by how my life was going so far, i wasn't too optimistic.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Hero, Son

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• Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• You decide for yourself when it will hurt.

  Per Petterson

  Hurt

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• My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

  Anne Rice

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 29, 2010

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• All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mistake, Medicine, People

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Clever

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

  Denis Waitley

  Congratulations, Expectations, Mind

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• Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

  Harvey Mackay

  Positive, Success, Character

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Feelings

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• At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ; be cheerful and optimistic. Above all, never lose your faith in the destiny of India. There is no power on earth which can keep India in bondage. India will be free and, that too, soon. JAl-HIND !

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Destiny, Temporary Defeat

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• People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Thinking, Roots

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “The Magic”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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  Begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  Stephen R. Covey (2000). “Vision: Defining Your Destiny in Life”, Franklincovey

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• People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Believe, People

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• Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Attitude, Thinking

  "The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results".

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• It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.
  There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Business, Mistake

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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  It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspirational, Adversity, Sides

  Jimmy Buffett (2002). “Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only way around is through.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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