Janet Varney Quotes

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

When you think positive, good things happen.

Be positive and laugh at everything.

When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

I want always to be positive.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

I believe in being positive.

I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'

In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

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.

There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

I live in Palm Beach, where no one wants to hear bad news.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.