“ There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. Robert Alden
“ I spoke one time at the Library of Congress, in 1972, or so. A man stood up in the middle of the audience, when I was about halfway through, and he said, What right have you, as leader of America's yo… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best. Faraaz Kazi
“ The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. Pat Conroy
“ I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God! Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. George Bernard Shaw
“ If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. Albert Camus
“ When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens. Michael Lewis
“ This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream? Marguerite Yourcenar
“ 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 g… Gretchen Rubin
“ Human beings shouldn't have to enter such doors, shouldn't have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no anything at all. They were worse than the grave, for in the grave is an ab… Cornell Woolrich
