Karolyn Grimes Quotes

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

I've had a wonderful life. The reason it's been a wonderful life is I've made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

I've learned to go out and focus on what I can control, like how hard I work and my attitude and whether I'm happy or not. I've really tried to focus on those things.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

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.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

'Ninnu Kori' urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.