What is Optimism?
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Optimism is trust that things will get better no matter how bad they seem, looking for the best aspects of any situation, and the belief that good will inevitably triumph over evil.
An optimist looks at a rose and ignores the thorns. A pessimist focuses on the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
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Optimism is an outlook on life such that one maintains a view of the world as a positive place, or one's personal situation as a positive one.
Optimism - An English Test Cricketer applying sunscreen when he is about to go into bat.
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"Optimism is the opium of the masses.
Pessimism is the pesticide of society." - Ken Muslimvoic
I guess he meant that hope gives the masses fake illusions in the way things are.. and negative pessimism and mistrust in society weeds out "social agitators" and keeps them from doing anything.
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the stupidist thing to ever occur in the human mind. False hopes, reaching for impossible dreams, and making inadequate preparations for a negative situation because the victim had a feeling "it wouldnt be too bad"
im very optimistic that we can bring world peace to the earth if we try hard enough
