Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

  • -- Norman Cousins 卡森斯

乐观不依赖事实。它处理的是前景。悲观是浪费时间。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

当一扇门关上时,另一扇门就会打开;但是我们常常对那扇关上的门望得那么久,那么遗憾,以致于我们没有看到那扇为我们打开的门。

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

黄昏——大自然改变了她的警惕,这是一个停顿的时刻。如果没有黄昏,所有的生物都会因太亮或太暗而褪色和死亡。

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

我不认为你的领导是悲观和愤世嫉俗。我认为你乐观、热情、精力充沛。

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

当你得到你想要的一切后,成为一个乐观主义者并不重要。

I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it.

我一直这样告诉自己,而且大多数时候我都相信。