Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
- Topic: Imagination, Pessimism
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
