Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.

Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

I always try to find a less frustrating way to look at things.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

I don't stress at all. When other people say, 'I'm having a bad day,' I ask, 'How can you have a bad day for the entire 24 hours, or even 12 or eight hours?' Something bad might happen, but that can't make the entire day bad.

There are no disappointments, just challenges.

Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.

Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!