Zooey Deschanel Quotes

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

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.

I think everything bad that happens can be good in a way, if you're thinking about it after a while.

I'm always thankful for the stuff I went through and thankful for the people I've met, and I'm thankful even for some of the bad times because all of it helps get you to wherever you are in your life.

All negative things you can turn positive, and for me, that is key.

Even when it doesn't look good, it's always good. Even the worst thing, there's always something good that comes out of it. I've learned that.

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

Things don't happen to you, they happen for you.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.

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.

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

I take whatever good part comes along.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

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