Bruce Johnston Quotes

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

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.

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.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

We're all human beings, and we all have the same problems. I do remember how blessed I am, and no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.

I like to look at the glass half full.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.

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

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

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.