You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."