Optimism

Optimism is a classic and inspirational essay by Helen Keller on the topic of optimism that serves as one of the best self-help books that one could find. This great work contains this snippet: Could we choose our environment and were desire in human undertakings synonymous with endowment all men would I suppose be optimists. Certainly most of us regard happiness as the proper end of all earthly enterprise. The will to be happy animates alike the philosopher the prince and the chimney-sweep. No matter how dull or how mean or how wise a man is he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.