Jenni Rivera Quotes

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

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

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

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

We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

I don't have time to be depressed.

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

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

For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

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

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.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.