Lynda Barry Quotes

You've got to laugh at life, you can't take it all too seriously.

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

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

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

When I win, I'm happy. When I lose, I'm also happy. I'm grateful for this life I have to live. It's a great life.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Be positive and laugh at everything.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

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

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

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.

My worst days are still pretty good days. That's something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.