John Wells Quotes

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.