My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
I think that I am a deeply optimistic person.
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
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