{"topic":"optimism","quotes":[{"quote":"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.","author":"Colin Powell"},{"quote":"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.","author":"Havelock Ellis"},{"quote":"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.","author":"James Branch Cabell"},{"quote":"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.","author":"Oscar Wilde"},{"quote":"I find nothing more depressing than optimism.","author":"Paul Fussell"},{"quote":"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.","author":"Peter Ustinov"},{"quote":"Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.","author":"Robert G. Allen"},{"quote":"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.","author":"Sir Winston Churchill"},{"quote":"An optimist is the human personification of spring.","author":"Susan J. Bissonette"}]}