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“If you’re negative, your whole body suffers. A negative person falls apart, because the food that is supplied with optimism is not present.” An optimist does not deny darkness. Optimists like Charlie refuse to sink into it, to hide in it,
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Optimism is a most important quality to living happily
“had not, until now, understood that in this world only men had the freedom to act, to roam, to live. This understanding plunged me into an abysmal pit, far beyond despair.”
― The Lotus Shoes
― The Lotus Shoes
“Life as a muizai was full of hunger, suffering and humiliation, and I’d endured it all.”
― The Lotus Shoes
― The Lotus Shoes
“If you’re negative, your whole body suffers. A negative person falls apart, because the food that is supplied with optimism is not present.” An optimist does not deny darkness. Optimists like Charlie refuse to sink into it, to hide in it, to surrender to darkness.”
― The Book of Charlie
― The Book of Charlie
“Just do the right thing.” The simplicity is so removed from my own generation of helicopter parents.”
― The Book of Charlie
― The Book of Charlie
“But she was my superior in character. I’d been given every advantage, but at the first sign of adversity, I’d given up, while Little Flower had fought against ill fortune, hardships, injury, heartaches, crushed dreams and impossible odds.”
― The Lotus Shoes
― The Lotus Shoes
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