Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it. (Gregory David Roberts)

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

Gregory David Roberts

Related topics

expect least love real sense three ways

Related quotes

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. I love being a freak. It's great! View quote
Brian Molko
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. View quote
Frank Zappa
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". View quote
Sydney J. Harris