Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

I love life too much to be bitter.

I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.

I choose to focus on the positive.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain.

I am that lucky woman who has been living my life all my life. Anything can happen now. Anything. And it will be only whip cream and delightful things. Even in the conflict and the hardship.

I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.