He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated – but haters are losers. It’s not good to feed this aspect. It’s more intelligent to be constructive.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Energy begets energy.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‚Dang, she looks good for her age!‘

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Never complain and never explain.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

I never hold a grudge.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

You are victors, not victims!