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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
“Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.”
― News of the World
― News of the World
“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
“It’s natural to look at a goal and think… it might not be attainable. The trick is to ignore the “not.” Charlie had a gift for ignoring.”
― The Book of Charlie
― The Book of Charlie
“Life as a muizai was full of hunger, suffering and humiliation, and I’d endured it all.”
― The Lotus Shoes
― The Lotus Shoes
“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
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