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Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.
Émile-Auguste Chartier
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."
Fred Rogers
When young one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (March 6, 1780)