“ When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity. Bryant McGill
“ And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right. Jeff Lindsay
“ Whenever you begin to conclude, "I can't win," and "What's the use?" you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. James C. Dobson
“ I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get… R. Buckminster Fuller
“ Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Do this exercise: Demolish the bridges of pessimism behind you. If you do this very well, you'll have no other choice than to move forward! Successful people are always optimistic! Israelmore Ayivor
“ If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once? Brian Spellman
“ I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots. Haruki Murakami
“ There's actually a sort of comfort in the belief that things can only get worse. It gives one an appreciation for the here-and-now, knowing that each and every moment may be as good as its ever going… Mort W. Lumsden
“ So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me. Herman Melville
“ John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote. John Taliaferro
“ Human existence is a penal colony; a sexually transmitted disease; a disappointment; nothing but suffering; “a sky-dive: out of a cunt into the grave”; a one-way ticket to the crematorium. “Nobody get… Colin Feltham
“ Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done. Itohan Eghide
“ And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the… Peter Cameron
“ Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today and what has happened just sin… Robertson Davies
“ Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them. William Shakespeare
“ You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner or later you have to ask yourself, or the person with you, ‘will there be everything we have hoped fo… Kyra Gregory
“ Okay, even if we disagree on that point, we still need to keep living our lives, don't we?... Susin Nielsen
“ It is noted that from 1967 to 1995 essays on negative emotions far outnumbered those on positive emotions in the psychological literature. The ratio was 21:1. Even those supreme perpetrators of pop ni… Rob Brezsny
