The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

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The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen...

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen...

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism...

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism...

Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face,...

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face,...

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic...

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic...

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the...

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the...

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's...

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's...

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent...

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent...

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my...

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my...

Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.

Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking...

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking...

I'm in a wonderful position; I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but...

I'm in a wonderful position; I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but...

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written...

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

Patience and fortitude conquer all things