O Quotes
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“Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.”
“Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Optimal hydration is part of the treatment for COVID-19.”
Source: COVID Supplements
“Optimal nutrition is eating the right things, in the right amounts, at the right time.”
Source: Becoming a Self-Empowered Being: The Journey Towards Achieving Body-Mind-Mastery and Living According to One's Calling
“Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Optimism and faith is not enough; terrible things do happen, but that doesn't mean that you have to live in a constant state of fear. If you do, the bad things might still happen anyway, but you wouldn't have enjoyed all the pleasures of being alive.”
Source: Conversations on Love
“Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture.”
“Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.”
Source: Letters to a Young Catholic
“Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.”
“Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.”
Source: Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session
“Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.”
Source: Last Essays
“Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.”
“Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.”
“Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.”
Source: Optimism, a Real Remedy
“Optimism can be relearnt.”
“Optimism can be thought of as a cheery disposition to always look on the bright side of life, even despite the evidence. It is an attitude that can easily breed complacency and inaction. Hope, on the other hand, is a more active and radical ideal that recognizes the real possibility of failure, yet at the same time holds on to the prospect of success despite the odds, driven by a deep commitment to an outcome we value.”
Source: The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
“Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.”
“Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.”
“Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”
“Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.”
Source: Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse
“Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows”
“Optimism has always been an undeclared policy of human culture- one that grew out of our animal instincts to survive and reproduce- 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.”
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
“Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.”
Source: A diary of my times
“Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistling in the dark. Christian hope, by contrast, is faith looking ahead to the fulfillment of the promises of God, as when the Anglican burial service inters the corpse 'in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.' Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.”
“Optimism in adversity - especially illness.”
“Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.”
“Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions”
“Optimism is a belief and I adapt belief as a way of life.”
“Optimism is a child's boot joyously stomping the rain puddle.”
Source: Just South of Faithful
“Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.”
“Optimism is a competitive advantage.”
“Optimism is a cure for many things.”
“Optimism is a deadly vice of gigantic proportions lodged into the human psyche by Satan. It is the enemy of reality. We see a bad situation and optimism prevents us from extrapolating that. Instead we think, "Oh, it's bound to get better." So we plunge into the thicket, sure that it will thin, denied the aerial view that would show us the true, unacceptable horror of our lot. Perhaps optimism is good for prison escapees, who have no choice but to plod on. The rest of us are not well served. It poisons our judgment.”
Source: Paradise Interrupted
“optimism is a disease”
“Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.”
“Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Optimism is a fundamental choice of leadership.”
“Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
Source: Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life
“Optimism is a huge help when it comes to health.”
“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair”
Source: The Best of
“Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.”
“Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”
“Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.”
Source: On Writing
“Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.”
Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
“Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.”
“Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality”
“Optimism is a revolutionary act”
“Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.”