When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.
Author unknown
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist.
Proverb
The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound beneath the scar.
Ernst Schroder