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  1. William Goldman _ The Princess Bride

    We'll never survive!" "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.
    book-quotehumoroptimismsurvival

  2. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood."
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  3. Voltaire _ Candide

    If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
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  4. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life---and how much effort it must take for them to be consistently good=tempered and positive. It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light. We nonjoyous types suck energy and cheer from the joyous ones; we rely on them to buoy us with their good spirit and to cushion our agitation and anxiety. At the same time, because of a dark element in human nature, we're sometimes provoked to try to shake the enthusiastic, cheery folk out of their fog of illusion---to make them see that the play was stupid, the money was wasted, the meeting was pointless. Instead of shielding their joy, we blast it.
    book-quotepessimismoptimismjoy

  5. Roméo Dallaire _ They Fight Like Soldiers, They

    I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.
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  6. Roméo Dallaire _ They Fight Like Soldiers, They

    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.
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  7. Charlotte Brontë _ Shirley

    God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
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  8. Eoin Colfer _ Airman

    A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
    book-quoteoptimismperception

  9. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
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  10. Jim Butcher _ Dead Beat

    We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.
    book-quotehumormotivationoptimism

  11. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic."
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  12. Pat Conroy _ The Lords of Discipline

    The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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