Just something to chew on today...

(as fall has arrived and winter is quickly pursuing us)

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.

The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

~Leonard Louis Levinson

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities

and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ~Harry Truman