Famous quotes by Joan Lunden:
"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."
"A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it."
"A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door."
"As a journalist I reported on health stories and certainly knew what I needed to do to be more fit and lower my risk of heart disease, but I wasn't incorporating it into my life, ... The more I learned about eating healthy and staying fit, the better my life became."
"when you have nothing to do as a kid, that's how you get into trouble."
"Michael gets everyone to go, to pepper the place with fun-to-see celebrities, ... When you show up at one of these things you don't expect to have bodyguards everywhere so no one can get to you. I have a lot of people come up to me; it's a fun night because you know it's for a good cause."
"Everyone is not living in big beautiful houses. Especially in cases of spousal abuse, women need help to provide for themselves and their children."
"Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore."
"I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families."
"Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet."
"Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories."
"I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds."
"So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children."