Joan Collins Quotes

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.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

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

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

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 all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

Smile, it's free therapy.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

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

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.

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.

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.

I did go through a bit of a dark time during the years I was trying to be a mom. But I'm basically a very positive person.

What's happening to me is I'm still happy and functioning, being able to listen to music, see good movies, read good books. What else is there that I can't, you know, I mean, I'm OK.

Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.

I try to be as positive a person as possible.

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

I am very positive. I like to box. I like my life. I am happy every day.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.