Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier - Colin Powell - Love is like the rainbows- you will never find the end

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I know the roller coaster will bottom out and we’ll be heading back up (that’s what history tells us), but in the meantime it was good to re-review my 10 favorite “Half-Full” quotes:

1. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose – Kahlil Gibran
2. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection - Thomas Paine
3. A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them – Leonard Louis Levinson
4. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true - James Branch Cabell
5. Optimism is the foundation of courage – Nicholas Murray Butler
6. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties – Harry Truman
7. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier - Colin Powell
8. For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else - Sir Winston Churchill
9. You see things; and you say “why?” But I dream of things that never were, and I say “Why not?” – George Bernard Shaw
10. The tenth is actually a story my old boss used to tell just about once a month; it’s about two boys who one beautiful day were exploring their neighbor’s farm and came upon an empty barn that smelled of manure – the first boy said, “we got to get out of here, this smells horrible“, but the second boy said “Oh boy, this is great – there must be horses around!“. Yes, true optimists can even find a silver lining from manure!

Taken on: August 20, 2011

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