Marlo Thomas Quotes

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

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

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

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.

I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.