Charles de Lint Quotes

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Pessimism is my default setting.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford)

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them, because all they're gonna do is cement pessimism in you!

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst!

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

A man I am cross'd with adversity.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.