Andy Andrews Quotes

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

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

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

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

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

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.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

I don't have time to be depressed.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

I'm interested in psychology and how your surroundings can influence your character, and because of that, I think I try and take the very best from a situation, good or bad, and constantly work on myself.

I've had my dark days, but I wasn't really a hell-raiser as such.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

I think having pointers and having guidance from mentors is very important, but it never actually embodies what you go through. And if something doesn't feel good, why do you repeat it? If you feel good bemoaning an audition for a week, go for it. But if you feel better bemoaning an audition that didn't go very well for 30 minutes because you believe in the craft and the process, then I suggest you do that. And that's what I suggest to myself. The alternative is way too painful and destructive.