Jenny Lewis Quotes

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

So what if right now everything is wrong?

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

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

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's all downhill from here. So I would just as soon believe, in my optimistic Midwestern American way, that we will recover and maybe even make lemonade out of the lemons that we are faced with.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

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

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

I've never seen a low point. I like to believe that they don't exist.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.