What does zest and optimism mean?
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Doing something with passion.  Expecting nothing less than greatness.
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the generous will prosper:  it means people who give generously\n                                            will be rewarded generously.\n\nglad heart means happy face:  what's inside one's heart shows\n                                                  on his face.\n\ntelling the truth furthers justice:  truth paves the way to justice.
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Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness-The Architect, aka Col. Sanders.  this comes from his long monologue from the thrid instalment of the matrix trilogy, the Matrix Reloaded.  \n \nyeah, its a nice quote.  you cant paraphrase it any better.  though my father had a similar line to tell me, not to hope against hope he said.
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Its about mind set.You have to accept all the good that life has to offer.You have to believe and know that only good is going to come your way.Sure there is going to be a few bumps in the road but go with it.Its just a bump.A positive out look will always land you in a better place than a dark negative view of things.Put yourself around positive people and avoid negativity in any form.Life is an adventure and the way you look at it will shape it for the good or the bad it's your choice.
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These are beautiful words, and one would hope we would all listen to them and incorporate them into our lives.  Cynically speaking, most people don't adhere to these words how valuable they are, tend to be negative, looking for the brass ring.  People struggle with enlightenment wanting to do it on their own, control the situation, and become frustrated when life doesn't turn out the way they want it.  Hope through the strength of believing in God that all things will turn out for the better is what we should strive for, however, in today's society, it is doubtful.  I would hope people would read these words and say, "I get it!".
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Its refering to sunlight. Only sunlight goes low or dim (We were afraid that the light was too low)
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I think there is a little different connotation. If I am "up for something" it means I'm excited about doing it. If I am "down for something" it means I'm cool about doing it, it's okay with me, but that does not necessarily imply enthusiasm.
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AMEN Brother!!! I love this little testimonial of yours, keep up the good work and God bless you!\n(Guess you can tell I'm an optimist too!)
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Yes and No. In most situations, Yes, you can be very optimistic, but sometimes being too optimistic can be harmful to your health. Being pessimistic sometimes is alright, but don't let it control all your descisions. A good balance between the two is great. You are in control with how you feel!
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God is now here. if your an optimist.\n\nGod is no where if your a pestimist.\n\nI am an optimist for sure!!!
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i hope positively\ncheers
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I used to be, the only positives to being negative, a pessimist, is that you tend to keep things real and you don't get blinded by stupid things or possibilities. There aren't many though, try changing.
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The literal meaning is "from faith ,confidence"\nwhich we might translate as "out of faith comes confidence"\nor "out of faith comes trust".\n\nNot sure of the origins. The words could be used with religious sense but in other ways too.
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When you wake up in the morning, think how blessed you are that you can breathe, eat, walk, talk, listen, feel, and taste.  Many people can't do some of those things.  Clearly with these things, we have no need to be pessimistic.  Be an optimist.  "Every Problem is a Possibility in disguise"
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Tough one....Hope really means confident expectation, which implies the idea that you have motivation to change, improve, and make the most of life.  A truthful outlook kind of says, "This is the way it is and always will be."  It seems kind of pessimistic.  \n\nI would take the "false" out of false hope and say "realistic" rather than "truthful."  That way you still enable yourself to reach your potential.  Heck, if we all did that, our country would run pretty well, and we wouldn't need therapists!
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Prediction - Stab in the dark.\n\nEstimation - Educated guess based on knowledge you already have.\n\nExpectation - The anticipated results of the educated guess you made.
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Truthfulness is telling the truth.\n\nOptimism, the opposite of pessimism, exemplifies a lifeview where one looks upon the world as a positive place. Optimists generally believe that people and events are inherently good. They have a so-called "positive" outlook on life, believing that things will work out in the end. A common conundrum illustrates optimism versus pessimism with the question, does one regard a given glass of water as half full or as half empty? Conventional wisdom expects optimists to reply with half full and pessimists to respond with half empty.\n\nPhilosophers often link the concept of optimism with the name of Gottfried Leibniz, who held that we live in the "best of all possible worlds," a theodicy which Voltaire famously mocked in his satirical novel Candide. The philosophical pessimism of, for instance, Arthur Schopenhauer, provides an opposite pole to philosophical optimism.\n\nThe anarchist philosopher William Godwin demonstrated perhaps even more optimism than Leibniz. He hoped that society would eventually reach the state where calm reason would replace all violence and force, that mind could eventually make matter subservient to it, and that intelligence could discover the secret of immortality. (Some express surprise to learn that a freedom-loving anarchist like William Godwin disapproved of suicide, but his disapproval came from his optimistic view of suicide as almost always a mistake.)\n\nOveroptimism, or strong optimism, is the overarching mental state wherein people believe that things will more likely go well for them than go badly. Compare this with the valence effect of prediction, a tendency for people to overestimate the likelihood of good things happening rather than bad things.\n\nPersonal optimism correlates strongly with self-esteem, with psychological well-being and with personal health. Martin Seligman, in researching this area, criticises academics for focusing too much on causes for pessimism and not enough on optimism. He points out that in the last three decades of the 20th century journals published 46,000 psychological papers on depression and only 400 on joy.\n\nIdeologically convinced optimists may defend failures in their hoped-for outcomes by discussing "misplaced optimism" rather than abandoning optimism altogether.\n\nA number of scholars have suggested that, although optimism and pessimism might seem like opposites, in psychological terms they do not function in this way. Having more of one does not mean you have less of the other. The factors that reduce one do not necessarily increase the other. On many occasions in life we need both in equal supply. Antonio Gramsci famously called for "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will": the one the spur to action, the other the resilience to believe that such action will result in meaningful change even in the face of adversity.\n\nHope can become a force for social change when it combines optimism and pessimism in healthy proportions. John Braithwaite, an academic at the Australian National University, suggests that in modern society we undervalue hope because we wrongly think of it as a choice between hopefulness and naivity as opposed to scepticism and realism.