Dana Reeve Quotes

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

I'm fair-minded, maybe. Maybe I bend over backward to give people too much benefit of the doubt. And I'll give credit where credit is due.

I make sure I'm appreciative and can an encounter the world in a humble way.

Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.

Work at being a humble person.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.