Viv Albertine Quotes

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!

That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to live. If something bad happened, they didn't sit at home, eat Haagen-Dazs, and watch a movie.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

My natural state is to be happy. I'm naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, 'What a great morning!' I've had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don't know one human being who hasn't. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It's life, after all.

When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.

I may have some things tougher than the average person, but there are a lot of people who are going through worse things than me. I can't live in fear.

I try and look at the positives in every situation.

I'm so lucky that I've always been able to laugh about things, even at my very lowest times.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

My mom is the most positive person. She has always had a smile on her face no matter what came her way. After seeing that, I'm not going to let a little cellulite get in the way of my happiness!

I reason that as long as I'm smiling 90 percent of the time, I can handle the setbacks that occur 10 percent of the time.

Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

When I'm having a tough patch I always try to focus on good things.

I choose to focus on the positive.