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Optimist Quotes

A Select Collection of Optimist Quotes

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Anne Frank
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Emily Dickinson
We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Norman Vincent Peale
What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.

Paul Meyer
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass.

Dr. Samuel Johnson
When any fit of anxiety or gloominess or perversion of the mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints but exert your whole care to hide it. By endeavoring to hide it, you will drive it away.

Sydney Harris
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?

Les Brown
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

H. K. Barclay
When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

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