Dr. Seuss Quotes

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

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

I'm so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I'm not.

Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty.

I try to see the positive side of things.

I was given advice early in the quarantine: Don't focus on what you don't have. Focus on what you do have and will have again, and I've said that to myself over and over again.

I realize that my worst day is pretty good.

I'm counting every silver lining I can get.

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

Say something, Amy," Miranda insists. "Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better." "Okay, Miranda. I've got it." I motion the girls to lean in close to hear my words. "At least I'm not dead." How's that for positivity? I have to admit it does make me feel better.

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

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.