Karen Kilgariff Quotes

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

In football, you can't always have it your own way. You can't always have the good times. You are going to have bad spells and periods when you are not playing well. It is something I have to deal with. I have learnt to deal with it.

All my summer and Puja vacations were spent in Calcutta with my didima and a host of other relatives and friends.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy.

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

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

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

That's what I'm attracted to: how people face struggle - with humor - and how they handle tough situations in their lives and in conversations.

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig.

You look for comic relief in difficult times.

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

I have worries, but in difficult times, that is when I am quiet.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see some of those things as a kid, but I believe God doesn't save you from things; he saves you through them.

I grew up with two brothers with whom I played a rough game of football. If I could take that, I could take anything.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

Some days are harder than others, just like anything.

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.