L'optimisme, ce n'est pas le refus de voir ce qui ne va pas, c'est le désir de ne pas s'y attarder. // Donne moi le courage de changer les choses que je peux changer, la sérénité d'accepter celles que je ne peux pas changer, et la sagesse de distinguer entre les deux. (Marc Aurèle) // Don't raise your voice; improve your argument. (Desmond Tutu) // Be the change you want to see in the world. (Gandhi)

8.5.18


I’m not an optimist. 
That makes me sound naïve. 
I’m a very serious “possibilist.” 
That’s something I made up. 
It means someone who neither hopes without reason, 
nor fears without reason, 
someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. 
As a possibilist, I see all this progress, 
and it fills me with conviction 
and hope that further progress is possible. 
This is not optimistic.

(Hans Rosling,  #FactFullness)

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