Lynda Barry Quotes

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

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.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.

Be positive and laugh at everything.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.

It's sort of my job to feel good.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

I think that I am a deeply optimistic person.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

People have good and bad days.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.