Emmylou Harris Quotes

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

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

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.

Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.

Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

I don't know what the future holds. All I know is, I'm good today. Real good.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

I don't care about the future. I feel the future always reserves enough good things for you if you stay open and you smile.

Instead of fearing the unknown - all the bad that can happen - realize that good things can surprise you as well.

Come what may, I have been blest.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we are able to take the next step with trust that we will have enough light for the step that follows, we can walk through life with joy and be surprised at how far we go.

I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.