Regularly envisioning yourself as having the best possible outcomes, and taking realistic steps toward achieving them, may help develop an optimistic mind-set.

Often urged to put their feet back on the ground and face reality, optimists are sometimes misunderstood. Accused of living in a "Care Bear world" and of not being equipped for the harshness of ...

Science Optimists Don’t Just Live Happier—They Live Longer, Study Finds THE SUNNY SIDE Female optimists were likely than pessimists to make it into their nineties, researchers reported.

Goran Paskaljevic returns to the omnibus form of his scorching "Powder Keg" in "The Optimists." But these five stories set in post-Milosevic Serbia are unrelated beyond their general air of ...

The Optimists tells the story of a street performer named Sam, who with a unique outlook on life befriends two children and teaches them to look at life from a new perspective. The novelty of ...

The Optimists, an international organization dedicated to “bringing out the best in kids” through community service programs, celebrated its 40th anniversary this week.

Despite their weekly training sessions the volleyball ladies THE OPTIMISTS (66-98) have not played a match for 30 years. Now this is exactly the plan. But against whom? Rumours say there is a group of ...

One of the things that attracted me to the woman who would become my second wife was that she bought a New York Times every Sunday morning and read every word of it, even if it took her all week. W… ...

opinion Editorials Americans are supposed to be optimists. So why have we become a nation of cynics? A functioning democracy requires all of us to have confidence in key institutions.

When they revisited them to see whose predictions proved most accurate, the pessimists trumped the optimists. Even more: Those with low expectations were living longer than those who persisted in ...

Subtitled "The Story of the Rescue of the Jews of Bulgaria," "The Optimists" explores another courageous, little-known chapter in the saga of resistance and heroics during World War II. Too ...