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AquatheOhioKitty [2017-04-27 00:51:36 +0000 UTC]

Positive thinking never helps me, I've tried it never stays and just makes me feel worse about what has happened.

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Raleigh33 [2014-12-29 02:02:09 +0000 UTC]

And pessimism doesn't mean maturity. You can accept reality and be positive.

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TheCrossoverer89 [2014-01-06 00:37:43 +0000 UTC]

"THE PESSIMIST is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. Jesus Christ was crucified, it may be remembered, not because of anything he said about God, but on a charge of saying that a man could in three days pull down and rebuild the Temple. Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness. The prophet who is stoned is not a brawler or a marplot. He is simply a rejected lover. He suffers from an unrequited attachment to things in general."

~G.K. Chesterton: Introduction to "The Defendant."

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LovablyAwkward [2013-11-19 05:14:59 +0000 UTC]

Positive thinking has helped me out. It's easier to think positive personally because instead of thinking of what could have been, I think of what will be. 

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Guilliman-Heretic [2013-07-19 12:14:55 +0000 UTC]

I think I'd rather be optimistic to the point of denial than pessimistic to the point of.... total pessimism. It doesn't help in life as much as it's supposed to.

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erumaren-ainulindale [2013-03-03 22:22:08 +0000 UTC]

TRUE!

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Redfoxbennington [2011-11-25 07:56:36 +0000 UTC]

Tell that too this person

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Raph1966 [2011-07-06 13:00:10 +0000 UTC]

It doesn't help you mentally to think negatively, so I agree. If you see EVERYTHING as sunshine and roses while your world is falling apart, I would think THAT would be "denial". Why worry/think about things that may NEVER happen? You age faster that way. I say this from experience...no denial but negativity for most of my life. Nobody deserves it and it is never worth it.

So, main message: CHIN UP.

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NaruButt [2011-07-06 02:36:30 +0000 UTC]

Thinking positive always helps me when I am in a bad mood. :3

Thinking negative does nobody any good but make them worse.

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Raenafyn [2011-07-05 06:08:26 +0000 UTC]

i always like to think positive, there was a time i was pessimistic, and somehow i just got sick of it and became what i am now XD

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