Lou Gehrig Quotes

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

Look for the blessing in all situations.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

Seriously, I am not a person that I think much about what happened or what didn't happen or what could happen. I happy about the things that happened to me. I'm a lucky person, for sure, for all the things that happened to me during my life.

I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.

I feel I have been protected all my life. I am still here, for God's sake, and a lot of my contemporaries have gone. I'm very fortunate. No matter the difficulties - and we all have difficulties - I am definitely one of the fortunate ones. If I have any really good characteristics, one is that I am resilient.

I've been grateful for what comes along.

I've had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude.

I've been pretty blessed. Sometimes it comes in disguise.

I always think of myself of being lucky, maybe blessed is the word.

I've been very blessed, and that has not escaped me.

...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!

I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

Be grateful for small mercies.

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.

Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!

Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for hours, and have little people pounding in your head with hammers, it is sheer bliss just to eat a piece of toast, walk outside without getting dizzy, and breathe fresh air. Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.