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• I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

  Peter Ustinov

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• Optimism is the young boy who notices that a girl notices that he notices her.

  R.N. Prasher

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• Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first…

  Theodor Herzl

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• Man’s fatal flaw is misplaced optimism.

  Allan Wolf

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• The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

  Danny Wallace

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• History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

  Stephane Hessel

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• A fruit-bearing tree is known by its flowers.

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• It is one life, whether we spend it in laughing or in weeping.

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• One cannot always find a fish under a willow.

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• Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

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• Although the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.

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• When God chooses to give, it shall come in through the door.

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• All things were once impossible.

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• Half an orange tastes as sweet as a whole one.

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• When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

  Zaha Hadid

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  If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

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  Choose the positive. You have choice – you are master of your attitude – choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

  Bruce Lee

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  The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

  Khalil Gibran

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• 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

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  Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

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