Dana Reeve Quotes

#1. Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

Dana Reeve

#2. You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.

Dana Reeve

#3. Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, my husband and I lived on
and because of
hope. Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on.

Dana Reeve

#4. Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Jean Baudrillard

#5. Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.

Dana Reeve

#6. My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

Aaron Lazar

#7. History has been conceived
and with high justification in the records
as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Mary Ritter Beard

#8. It is so important as a caregiver not to become so enmeshed in the role that you lose yourself. It's neither good for you nor your loved one.

Dana Reeve

#9. They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

Lauren Oliver

#10. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.

Dana Reeve

#11. We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.

Dana Reeve

#12. Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.

Dana Reeve

#13. I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

Sam Worthington

#14. Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Barney Frank

#15. One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do
you can either type or kill yourself.

Anne Lamott

#16. Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.

Dana Reeve

#17. I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

Dana Reeve