Drew Barrymore Quotes

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

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

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 had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Every loss I take, I've accepted, and I move on.

We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.

Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

I let go of the past and choose to accept every situation as being for me and not against me.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

My mom always has this amazing ability to always see the best in a situation.

But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.