The Optimist Conspectus

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Optimistic about: past

Optimism about past, by continent:

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via Mr_Effie:

The past is for the pessimistic… the future, for the optimistic.
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Posted: more than a week ago

Hunt Howell

Boston, Massachusetts

I worry constantly about our future, but I am optimistic about our history.
I do not mean to indicate that there are wells of goodness and civility and beauty back there in time waiting to be discovered and celebrated—that if we look hard enough and long enough, we’ll find some paradise that we might some day [...]

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Posted: more than a week ago

via mysticwindows:

It’s time 2 let go of the past now that Mercury is direct again, the emotional intensity is easing up, we are optimistic about the future
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Posted: more than a week ago

Andrew Grimes

Brighton, UK

Into every life a little rain must fall.
I’m optimistic that it’ll only be a little.
At my darkest moments I find that it helps to ask: Is there a distance between how bad things actually are and how bad I think they are?
Usually there is – things have always worked out in the past – and [...]

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Posted: more than a week ago