"A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks."
— Oscar Wilde
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties”
-- Harry S. Truman.
"If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation."
-- Hellen Keller
