Stephen Hawking Quotes

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

I don't have time to be depressed.

I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

I don't waste time being depressed.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.