Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Choices Quotes

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

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Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

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But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

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Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

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We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

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The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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