The American identity can be summarized in a single polling question: We are the only country in the world where a majority has consistently believed – with the exception of a few years in the late 1970s – that next year will be better. Such optimism must seem obnoxious to the rest of the world, […]
Optimism Quotes
The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
If life knocks you flat on your back, you’re still in a good position to look up!
The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
Cynics are well-informed optimists.
I hold not with the pessimist that all things are ill, nor with the optimist that all things are well. All things are not well, but all things shall be well, because this is God’s world.
