8 posts found with this tag.
Oct 8, 2026
Michael Douglas — the Oscar-winning actor and producer who at 82 has just published his first memoir, One Helluva Ride — on the line he gave The New York Times about what his 2010 cancer diagnosis taught him: “There’s something about cancer, it makes people not want to be near you.” He went on: “I was surprised by how few people checked in. They don’t know what to say.”
Oct 4, 2026
Hannah Fry, the British mathematician, author and broadcaster who became Cambridge’s first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics and is competing on the second series of The Celebrity Traitors, on the line from her 2023 Guardian interview ‘This Much I Know’ — the practice she arrived at after surviving cervical cancer at 36: the secret to being happy is repeating to yourself, ‘These are the good days.’
Oct 1, 2026
Nigella Lawson, the British food writer and new Great British Bake Off judge whose books have sold more than 12 million copies, on the line from her 2020 book Cook, Eat, Repeat that explains why she refuses to call any food a guilty pleasure: every mealtime, every mouthful, is a celebration of life.
Sep 20, 2026
8 quotes about happiness and gratitude from Viktor Frankl, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eric Hoffer, Helen Keller, Victor Hugo, Robert Waldinger, James Clear and Brother David Steindl-Rast. A curated collection on why joy is a by-product of meaning, love and gratitude — not a target you can chase.
Sep 16, 2026
John Tuggle, the running back selected with the very last pick of the 1983 NFL Draft who became the first Mr. Irrelevant in NFL history to make his team’s roster, on the sentence he spoke to Bill Parcells in the summer of 1986 — the words that turned the final meeting of a life cut short by cancer at 25 into a lesson in gratitude, grace and letting go, as his Wikipedia page, which usually drew only a few hundred views a day, surged past 334,000 in a single September morning after the trailer for the biopic Mr. Irrelevant: The John Tuggle Story arrived.
Sep 16, 2026
A deep dive on Michael J. Fox — the Canadian-born 'army brat' who left high school in eleventh grade, sold his guitar, and moved to Los Angeles at eighteen, where a middle initial borrowed to dodge a Screen Actors Guild conflict became one of the most recognizable names in the world; the star of Family Ties and the Back to the Future trilogy who was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease at twenty-nine, hid it for seven years, and went on to found the Michael J. Fox Foundation, now the world's largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research; his defining reflections on family, acceptance, gratitude, and optimism; and the legacy of the five-time Emmy winner who accepted the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 14, 2026, to a standing ovation — the 'incurable optimist' who keeps insisting that gratitude makes optimism sustainable, and that accepting a truth is not the same as surrendering to it.
Aug 26, 2026
8 quotes about happiness and joy from Dolly Parton, Sandra Bullock, Miley Cyrus, Zendaya, and Michael Jackson. On joy in the work, knowing yourself, and gratitude.
Aug 2, 2026
8 quotes about happiness from Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Simone Biles. A curated collection on gratitude, choosing joy, and finding peace within.