“There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.”
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Whosoever Will Save His Life, Tambuli, Feb 1983, 1.
“A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.”
— Christopher Paolini, book Eldest
Source: Eldest
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