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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #2
    Victor Hugo
    “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #3
    Cassandra Clare
    “Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #4
    Thomas L. Friedman
    “Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
    Thomas Friedman

  • #5
    Randy Pausch
    “Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #7
    Eoin Colfer
    “A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.”
    Eoin Colfer, Airman

  • #8
    Steve Voake
    “Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.”
    Steve Voake, The Dreamwalker's Child

  • #9
    Jim  Butcher
    “You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?”
    Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

  • #10
    William Arthur Ward
    “The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #11
    Ana Monnar
    “I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.”
    Ana Monnar

  • #12
    “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
    Roger Crawford

  • #13
    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “Pessimism never won any battle.”
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • #14
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #17
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    Woody Allen

  • #18
    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

  • #19
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #20
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves



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