“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Dead as dead can be,’ my doctor tells me But I just can’t believe him, never the optimistic one I’m sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe Someday I will walk away and say, ‘You disappoint me,’ Maybe you’re better off this way.”— Maynard James Keenan, open.spotify.com
“What is an optimist? The man who says, 'It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky.' He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, 'Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com
“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”— Wayne Dyer, goodreads.com
“You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.”— Amy Jo Cousins, amazon.com
“Anxiety is the constant thought that says, ‘Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.'”— Carly Riegler, thoughtcatalog.com
“You sometimes act or say things on impulse that you instantly regret the minute you take a step back. Or you shut down and withdraw and say nothing at all. Once the fog clears, you realize that maybe a lot of what happened was due to your negative thinking.”— Sofia De Jesus, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is an unanswered text that kills you inside even though you tell yourself, ‘maybe they’re busy or will answer later.’ Anxiety is that critical voice that says ‘maybe they’re deliberately ignoring you.’ It’s believing every negative scenario you can come up with.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“"I'm an optimist." "Well that's good because there's no irrefutable evidence. There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to."”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”— Christopher Paolini, amazon.com
“What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.”— Spencer Johnson, amazon.com
“Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more tha…”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com