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“This positive-thinking stuff is crap,” she said to me one evening as I sat on her hospital bed. “But then, so is negative thinking.  They both cover up reality — which is that we just don’t know what is going to happen.  That’s the reality we have to live with.  But it is easy to see why people take refuge in optimism or pessimism.  They both give you an answer.  But the truth is that we just don’t know. What a hard truth that is!”

The Way of Transition, William Bridges, page 24