A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.It however sound very good together with another quote, which can be traced back to Churchill:
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.With the definition of the pessimist and optimist from the first quote, it is obviously true. We must see the possibilities in the difficulties, not the opposite. There will undoubtedly be trouble - Churchill had his fair amount of trouble in his time; but only by taking the difficulties as challenges and doing our best to overcome them we have the chance to get something better. Pessimism and negativity merely lead to apathy, resignation and fulfillment of the apocalyptic prophecies one creates for oneself. And that will bring no joy - at least not, if one ignores the extremely poor and stupid one of the kind it is to be able to say "I told you so!"
(Translated from Det eneste rigtige valg, originally published February 24th, 2017)