"Every cloud has a silver lining"

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

Source: The Will to Believe (1897)

Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict

Source: Self-Culture (1838)

Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Source: Peter Pan (1911)

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