John Gourley Quotes

My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.

You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.'

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.'

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

I don't feed into negativity. I thankfully don't. That's just me.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

I am not saying everything's perfect, but I embrace anything bad because that makes me appreciate all the good.