11 quotes
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
— George Santayana
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
— Francis Bacon
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
— Menander
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”
— Wendell Berry
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”
— Thucydides
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
— William Arthur Ward
“The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails”
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality”
— James Stockdale
“Hope is not blind optimism. It is not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead.”
— Barack Obama
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