I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
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An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
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Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty?Take another sip. And now?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else..
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There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything", and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway". Either way, nothing happens.
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The Doctor, Season 6, Episode 6
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
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