I really like Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest was my favorite play to read freshman year. I've seen a lot of his quotes other places and they always say the absolute truth in the most hilarious way it can be said. While this isn't his funniest quote (my personal favorite is "Everything popular is wrong"), it is one of the ones I can relate to the most.
Whenever I feel bad I always think of worse things that could've happened to me and that always makes me feel better . . . which is actually a rather pessimistic way to be optimistic now that I put it into words. But knowing that things aren't as bad as they could be is really comforting, mostly because I don't buy in to that "it's only downhill from here" thinking. I'm more of a "after you've hit rock bottom, the only place to go is up" kind of person.
That's sort of what I see in this quote. It might be bad now, but it could always be worse and there's comfort in the fact that it can only get better.
Aw, wasn't that insightful? Use that when I'm famous.
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Quite the optimistic point of view for you...you know that part about hitting bottom and there's only one way to go...up! I love bookstores, they are probably my favorite place! I always wanted to have a library in my house (I don't have one), you know the one with the ladder on rollers that help you reach the books on the top shelf. I can lose myself in a book...sometimes, many times....the book is a better place than reality...don't you think?
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