Rebecca Wells Quotes

Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us.

I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I always think everything has been the best part of my life.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

I'm lucky, always hopeful... I love my life.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

Every burden is a blessing.