“Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!” — Douglas Fairbanks Quote

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is to do all we can without any expectation of results.