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• I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Life, Jesus, Optimistic

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• Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

  Robin Sharma

  No Hope, Optimist, Disappointed

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2017

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• Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

  C. S. Lewis

  Optimistic, Thinking, Views

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• un optimista es el hombre que cuida tus ojos, y el pesimista la persona que cuida tus pies.

  Ada Leverson

  Eye, Men, Feet

  Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

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• ...Pero la naturaleza no dice que los gatos sean más valiosos que los ratones; la naturaleza no hace ninguna observación al respecto. Ni siquiera dice que el gato sea envidiable o el ratón lamentable. Pensamos que el gato es superior porque tenemos (o la mayoría de nosotros tenemos) una filosofía particular en el sentido de que la vida es mejor que la muerte. Pero si el ratón fuera un ratón pesimista alemán, podría pensar que el gato no le ha vencido en absoluto. Podría pensar que ha vencido al gato al llegar primero a la tumba.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Cat, Thinking

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?

  John Buchan

  Sea, People, Mastery

  John Buchan (2016). “SIR EDWARD LEITHEN Complete Collection – 6 Titles in One Premium Edition (Mystery & Thriller Series): The Power-House, John Macnab, The Dancing Floor, The Gap in the Curtain, Sick Heart River & Sing a Song of Sixpence”, p.30, e-artnow

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• A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

  Peter Greenaway

  Gay, Used, Critics

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Mankind, Regard, Bits

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.

  J. G. Ballard

  Thinking, People, Boots

  "Age of Unreason". Interview with Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

  James Branch Cabell

  Corazón, Gente, Mayo

  James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

  Rondal Partridge

  Sarcastic, Photographer, Optimist

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• The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Soul, Atheism

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• Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. ...It is far more realistic to suppose that, if the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

  Jane Rule

  Gay, People, Political

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments. Always on to the next and never in the moment.

  Nicki Minaj

  Smell, Rose, Next

  "Nicki Minaj Continues Newsstand Domination With Complex Cover" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. March 20, 2012.

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• To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Men, Arms

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• A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

  Mark Twain

  Optimist, Wells

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• In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Believe, Vision

  Fuente: www.midnighteye.com

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• No puedo ser pesimista, porque estoy vivo.

  James A. Baldwin

  Alive, I Am Alive, I Can

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• The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Fool, He Man

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• Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

  Bill Bryson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Balance

  "Bill Bryson responde a tus preguntas". www.theguardian.com. 10 de marzo de 2005.

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• Un pesimista es un optimista en plena posesión de los hechos.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Facts, Optimist, Possession

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• I've never met a successful pessimist.

  William O'Neil

  Successful, Mets

  "Conversation with a maverick investor". Interview with Kevin Marder, www.marketwatch.com. September 13, 2011.

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• El mundo pertenece a los optimistas; los pesimistas son sólo espectadores.

  François Guizot

  Investing, World, Optimist

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• Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Opportunity

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.57, Moody Publishers

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• It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

  Zig Ziglar

  Believe, Vocabulary, Might

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