Vachel Lindsay Quotes

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.

When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

I have never been a cynical person.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

I have no cynicism at all.

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.

I start small. I'm kind to people. I say please, I say thank you, and I always try to be encouraging and positive.

Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them.

True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.

We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people... you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.

Cynicism is for lightweights.

I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love.

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.