Daniel Gilbert Quotes

For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

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

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

My worst day, I'm just going to try and smile.

There are going to be bad things in your life, a lot of ups and downs, but the only thing you can control is your attitude. And if you do that, in the end good things will happen.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

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

When you think positive, good things happen.

I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.

I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.