Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.

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.

Every thought you have has an energy that will either strengthen or weaken you.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

I don't waste time being depressed.

It's sort of my job to feel good.

I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I don't have time to be depressed.

As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.

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

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.