Teri Garr Quotes

I wanted to tell people you can live a full life, even if you're not feeling well.

One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

Things happen for some reason. I don't know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that's it.

When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

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.

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.

Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.