A Quote by Jill Abramson

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

Jill Abramson

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Jill Abramson
American - Editor
Born: March 19, 1954

There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.

Deryck Whibley

I'm actually big into meditation, transcendental meditation, and that really helps create not only a sense of balance, but all the other stuff this is gonna sound cliché... serenity and kind of a calm state of mind. And not that I'm like that all the time, but it helps me deal with life's ups and downs, coming from more of a centered place. Also it helps with creativity.

Eva Mendes

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.

Brad Marchand

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.

Napoleon Hill

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

Robert Breault

There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.

Sachin Tendulkar

Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.

Liana Liberato

The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

Muso Soseki

I feel oddly at peace with the ups and downs of pandemic life. They're not too different from the ups and downs of deployment life, which I've experienced a lot the last few years as my husband, an Army Special Forces officer, has been overseas.

Brianna Keilar

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

Jennifer Garner

Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.

Naomi Weisstein

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

Michael Owen

Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

Julian Baggini

There were some ups and downs. But it is about how you overcome those ups and downs.

David Wilkerson

That was my dad's sense of, you know, laughing at himself, laughing at existence, the universe, all of it and not being too serious about what we do with because at the end of the day if you're here it's a blessing. It's you know life is hard. Life is hard for everybody at some point, but it's those who are able to laugh at it and laugh with it and roll with it that ultimately I think live the fulfilling lives that we're all trying to do. You know, and big step there is to not take yourself too seriously from the start.