Emily Giffin Quotes

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.'

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.

Life is good. It might not go the way we plan it, but that's fine. We just do what we can.

Things in life just happen and then you make the best of the situation and you keep moving.

Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo!

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.