"An optimist is a person who sees a green..." - Albert Schweitzer

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“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.”

Schweitzer contrasts two fundamental orientations toward experience.

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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Whitman

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

— Henri Matisse

“Write in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

— Thomas Edison

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

— Helen Keller

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

— William Arthur Ward