Jim Kelly Quotes

I wanted to tell people you can live a full life, even if you're not feeling well.

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.

You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, 'I feel good, I have my health, and I'm so blessed.' That's the way I choose to look at it.

I need to learn to smile more.

I don't want to be moaning about getting older or being overweight. I just want to focus on being happy and healthy.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

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.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others.

I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself.