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May you find great value in these Optimists quotes and sayings.
The highest thinkers of the ages,
the seers of the tribes and the nations,
have been optimists.
- Helen Keller
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
The River of Life flows eternally,
with infinite strength,
but with no convictions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...
only the universe rearranging itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
The River of Life has no judgments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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