Mariella Frostrup Quotes

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.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

Although sometimes it's very difficult, if you're willing to look hard enough, you can find positives in every situation.

Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

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.

I like to look at the glass half full.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

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

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

Every burden is a blessing.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.