{"quotes":[{"text":"Some people see the liquid and thing half full. Others only see the air and think half empty. Sometimes I get the sense Chatham sees it all, which is kind of terrifying. I don't know if I want him to see me--the real me.","author":"McCall Hoyle","tags":["optimism","pessimism","realism"],"id":82,"author_id":"McCall+Hoyle"},{"text":"Your mind is not just the wonderful power house that empowers your action and steps or the driver of your life but a wonderful city. A city in which people and things you think about dwell. Create therefore an effective and efficient licensing office in the city of your thought that will ensure that the right people and things live there. Do well to ensure that you differentiate between people and things that should stay permanently, those that should be just passersby and that which should not even get closer to this wonderful city. If you allow anything at all into this city, the city shall be filled with anything at all and you shall think about anything at all. Mind your mind!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["choices-and-consequences","life","mind-power","optimism","pessimism","positive-attitude","right-thinking","thought","wandering-mind"],"id":532,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you've been given eternal life. 'Whom or what shall you fear?' To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anxiety","apologetics","bravery","christ","christ-jesus","christian","christianity","courage","darkness","death","defensive","doubt","elephant","encouragement","eternal-life","evil","faith","faith-in-god","fear","fearlessness","funny","funny-but-true","god","goodness","humor","inspirational","irrational-fear","jesus","jesus-christ","life","light","love","martyr","motivational","mouse","negativity","obedience","offended","optimism","pessimism","positivity","power","pray","strength","trust","trust-in-god","universe","world","worry"],"id":4189,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["attitude","emotions","optimism","pessimism","thinking"],"id":4336,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["comparisons","expectations","optimism","pessimism"],"id":4737,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.","author":"Joyce Carol Oates","tags":["best","hope","optimism","pessimism","pragmatism","worst"],"id":6349,"author_id":"Joyce+Carol+Oates"},{"text":"One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.","author":"Thomas Fuller","tags":["optimism","pessimism"],"id":6350,"author_id":"Thomas+Fuller"},{"text":"All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["doom","life","optimism","pessimism","want"],"id":8325,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.","author":"Ken Kesey","tags":["pessimism","realism-truth","reflection"],"id":10089,"author_id":"Ken+Kesey"},{"text":"Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.","author":"Harold Bloom","tags":["discipleship","frustrations","obstacles","pessimism"],"id":11381,"author_id":"Harold+Bloom"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":302,"pages":31,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}