"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."

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.”
“What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?...”
“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”
“If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.”
“To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.”
“History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.”
“Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.159, Rowman & Littlefield
“Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.”

Source : Terrence E. Deal, M. K. Key (1998). “Corporate Celebration: Play, Purpose, and Profit at Work”, p.5, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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