Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
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My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
I am not a cynic.
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.
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