Optimism Philosophy Quotes

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
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Anne Frank (Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings)
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Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!
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Mark A. Cooper (Operation Einstein (Edelweiss Pirates #1))
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If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else's. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failureβ€”learn the lessons and adapt from it.
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Roy T. Bennett
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It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life; you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself.
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Roy T. Bennett
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You were not born on earth to please anyone; you have to live life to express yourself, not to impress someone. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, and never lose yourself in search of other people's acceptance and approval.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Fear robs you of your freedom to make the right choice in life that can bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. On the other side of fear, lies freedom. If you want to grow, you need to be brave and take risks. If you're not uncomfortable, you're not growing.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Optimism is cowardice.
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Oswald Spengler (Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life)
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Make peace with yourself before you move forward. Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.
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Roy T. Bennett
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If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.
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Germany Kent
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Digital Minimalism A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.
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Cal Newport (Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World)
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Your insensitivity neither lets me live nor die, Your betrayal lets me neither smile nor cry, I can't stand this parting of shores, Be mine or make me yours.
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Hareem Ch (Another World)
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No one else knows exactly what the future holds for you, no one else knows what obstacles you've overcome to be where you are, so don't expect others to feel as passionate about your dreams as you do.
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Germany Kent
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You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling.
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Lailah GiftyAkita
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Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness.
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Debasish Mridha
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Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.
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Germany Kent
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Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.
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Germany Kent (You Are What You Tweet: Harness the Power of Twitter to Create a Happier, Healthier Life)
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Negative thoughts are the causes of all depression and all stress. Be positive; never infect your mind with negative thoughts.
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Debasish Mridha
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The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore, every ravenous beast is the living grave of thousands of others, and its self-maintenance is a chain of painful deaths; and in which the capacity for feeling pain increases with knowledge, and therefore reaches its highest degree in man, a degree which is the higher the more intelligent the man is; to this world it has been sought to apply the system of optimism, and demonstrate to us that it is the best of all possible worlds. The absurdity is glaring.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Representation, Volume I)
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When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine
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Benny Bellamacina (Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1)
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The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the so-called ordinary person are within the reach of everyone, if their desire and their will are strong enough. I have studied science, art, religion and a hundred different philosophies. Anyone could do as much. By applying what you learn and ordering your thoughts in an intelligent manner it is possible to accomplish almost anything. Possible for an 'ordinary person.' There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
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Alan Moore (Watchmen)
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A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, β€œIt can’t get any worse!” You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.
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Kamand Kojouri
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The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.
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Germany Kent
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Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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In a culture that prizes the can-do, self-starter attitude, to be a pessimist is simply to be a complainer – if you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem. To live in such a culture is to constantly live in the shadow of an obligatory optimism, a novel type of coercion that is pathologized early on in child education in the assessment: β€œDoes not like to play with others.
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Eugene Thacker (Tentacles Longer Than Night: Horror of Philosophy Vol. 3)
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The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, So ... Love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones who don't. Life is 10% what you make it 90% how you take it.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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We each appear only one time in history. Whatever occurs in our life will never occur again. Our life is significant and worthy of living if we are brave, love fearlessly, and remain optimistic regardless of our earthly hardships.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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Have and show motivation to do and learn. That's the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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A word about my personal philosophy. It is anchored in optimism. It must be, for optimism brings with it hope, a future with a purpose, and therefore, a will to fight for a better world. Without this optimism, there is no reason to carry on. If we think of the struggle as aclimb up a mountain, then we must visualize a mountain with no top. We see a top, but when we finall yreach it, the overcast rises and we find ourselves merely on a bluff. The mountain continues on up. Now we see the "real" top ahead of us, and strive for it, only to find we've reached another bluff, the top still above us. And so it goes on, interminably. Knowing that the mountain has no top, that it is a perpetual quest from plateau to plateau, the question arises, "Why the struggle, the conflict, the heartbreak, the danger, the sacrifice. Why the constant climb?" Our answer is the same as that which a real mountain climber gives when he is asked why he does what he does. "Because it's there." Because life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known. Paradocically, they give up the dream of what may lie ahead on the heighs of tomorrow for a perpetual nightmare - an endless succession of days fearing the loss of a tenuous security.
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Saul D. Alinsky (Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals)
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Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up in rose-coloured progress-optimism, he heaps upon it the flowers of literature, he crawls behind the shelter of ideals so as not to see anything. But impermanence, the birth and the passing, is the form of all that is actual -- from the stars, whose destiny is for us incalculable, right down to the ephemeral concourses on our planet. The life of the individual -- whether this be animal or plant or man -- is as perishable as that of peoples of Cultures. Every creation is foredoomed to decay, every thought, every discovery, every deed to oblivion. Here, there, and everywhere we are sensible of grandly fated courses of history that have vanished. Ruins of the "have-been" works of dead Cultures lie all about us. The hybris of Prometheus, who thrust his hand into the heavens in order to make the divine powers subject to man, carries with it his fall. What, then, becomes of the chatter about "undying achievements"?
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Oswald Spengler (Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life)
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Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and originates in needs and necessities inseparable from life itself, as serving no purpose at all and the result of mere chance. Each separate misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be something exceptional; but misfortune in general is the rule. I know of no greater absurdity than that propounded by most systems of philosophy in declaring evil to be negative in its character. Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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There's a story behind every "I don't believe in love" "Period
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.
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Germany Kent
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Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye
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Benny Bellamacina (Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems)
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Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as " Do it yourself project.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Time change - Moments don't.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Life is all a green old English garden and time an endless summer afternoon.
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Henry James (A Passionate Pilgrim)
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To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.
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Amit Kalantri
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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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Baruch Spinoza (Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione et de Via: Qua Optime in Veram Rerum Cognitionem Dirigitur)
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Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I still remember my childhood. Some people are vegans. I have common sense. Some people call me Maurice. Some people call me the Gangsta of Love. Some people just want to live...but me, I'm the one still alive.
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Dave Matthes (Sleepeth Not, the Bastard)
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Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation.
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Germany Kent
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Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M" is silent.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Opportunity comes to everyone it depends on you whether you take it or leave it. Learn to take risks and play hard because at the end you'd be thankful for your struggle.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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In the end it will be your β€œActions” β€œConvictions” & β€œThoughts” which will determine how you shaped your life.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and our real life is passing by, moment by moment.Life is only lived in moments: anything else is a fantasy, a lie, an illusion.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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A lot of pain that we are dealing with are really only THOUGHTS.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Life doesn't walk away, we do.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS...
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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Being Wise & Being Smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called Wise
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress and change… are absolutely tremendous. Anybody who tells you that we're running out of resources or in a terrible mess--they are idiots. We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something. To say we are running out of resources is like saying we are running out of brain cells.
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Robert Anton Wilson
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These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present." The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries
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StanisΕ‚aw Lem
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Never allow anyone to hold the key to your happiness, key to your heart, or key to your dreams. Be in control of your life and build your hopes on things eternal. No one should have the power to manipulate your life, optimism, love, or success.
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Amaka Imani Nkosazana (Heart Crush)
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Disbelief in God, openly admitted by a majority, is a recent event, not yet completed. Because this event is so recent, Non-Religious Ethics is at a very early stage. We cannot yet predict whether, as in Mathematics, we will all reach agreement. Since we cannot know how Ethics will develop, it is not irrational to have high hopes.
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Derek Parfit (Reasons and Persons)
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If we have any role at all, I think it’s the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the kind which is meaningful, one that is rather close to that notion of the world which is not perfect, but which can be improved. In other words, we don’t just sit and hope that things will work out; we have a role to play to make that come about.
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Chinua Achebe
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We seem normal only to those who don't know us very well. In a wiser, more self-aware society than our own, a standard question on an early dinner date would be; "And how are you crazy?" The problem is that before marriage, we rarely delve into our complexities. Whenever casual relationships threaten to reveal our flaws, we blame our partners and call it a day. As for our friends, they don't care enough to do the hard work of enlightening us. One of the privileges of being on our own is therefore the sincere impression that we are really quite easy to live with. We make mistakes, too, because are so lonely. No one can be in an optimal state of mind to choose a partner when remaining single feels unbearable. We have to be wholly at peace with the prospect of many years of solitude in order to be appropriately picky; otherwise, we risk loving no longer being single rather more than we love the partner who spared us that fate. Choosing whom to commit ourselves to is merely a case of identifying which particular variety of suffering we would most like to sacrifice ourselves for. The person who is best suited to us is not the person who shares our every taste (he or she doesn't exist), but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently - the person who is good at disagreement. Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to tolerate differences with generosity that is the true marker of the "not overly wrong" person. Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition. Romanticism has been unhelpful to us; it is a harsh philosophy. It has made a lot of what we go through in marriage seem exceptional and appalling. We end up lonely and convinced that our union, with its imperfections, is not "normal." We should learn to accommodate ourselves to "wrongness", striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and our partners.
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Alain de Botton
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We try to show that the well-ordered society of justice as fairness is indeed possible according to our nature and those requirements. This endeavor belongs to political philosophy as reconciliation; for seeing that the conditions of a social world at least allow for that possibility affects our view of the world itself and our attitude toward it. No longer need it seem hopelessly hostile, a world in which the will to dominate and oppressive cruelties, abetted by prejudice and folly, must inevitably prevail. None of these may ease our loss, situated as we may be in a corrupt society. But we may reflect that the world is not in itself inhospitable to political justice and its good. Our social world might have been different and there is hope for those at another time and place
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John Rawls (Justice as Fairness: A Restatement)
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It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely similar nonsense for the aggravation of the next generation. "Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. Take up the literature of 1835, and you will find the poets and novelists asking for the same impossible gift as did the German Minnesingers long before them and the old Norse Saga writers long before that. And for the same thing sighed the early prophets and the philosophers of ancient Greece. From all accounts, the world has been getting worse and worse ever since it was created. All I can say is that it must have been a remarkably delightful place when it was first opened to the public, for it is very pleasant even now if you only keep as much as possible in the sunshine and take the rain good-temperedly.
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Jerome K. Jerome (Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow)
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The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this fact plays no part in their existential computations. For pessimists, however, it is axiomatic. Whether a pessimist urges us to live β€œheroically” with a knife in our gut or denounces life as not worth living is immaterial. What matters is that he makes no bones about hurt being the Great Problem it is incumbent on philosophy to observe. But this problem can be solved only by establishing an imbalance between hurt and happiness that would enable us in principle to say which is more desirableβ€”existence or nonexistence. While no airtight case has ever been made regarding the undesirability of human life, pessimists still run themselves ragged trying to make one. Optimists have no comparable mission. When they do argue for the desirability of human life it is only in reaction to pessimists arguing the opposite, even though no airtight case has ever been made regarding that desirability. Optimism has always been an undeclared policy of human cultureβ€”one that grew out of our animal instincts to survive and reproduceβ€”rather than an articulated body of thought. It is the default condition of our blood and cannot be effectively questioned by our minds or put in grave doubt by our pains. This would explain why at any given time there are more cannibals than philosophical pessimists.
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Thomas Ligotti (The Conspiracy Against the Human Race)