We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Topic: Pessimism
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More on Pessimism
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
