Abbe Pierre Quotes

Being diagnosed with cancer helped me identify all that was wrong in my life. It also helped me search for the solutions. I discovered self-love; I learned to prioritise myself over others and, most importantly, realised that I had to love myself first before somebody else loves me.

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

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

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

One of my favorite tools is 'flip it.' 'Flip it' can become your new favorite mantra when you are having one of those mean thoughts. You can choose to flip it and change how you are feeling about yourself in that moment. This is helpful at any age.

Happiness is an inside job.

I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself.

When I'm having a tough patch I always try to focus on good things.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

Smile, it's free therapy.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.