Comedy legend Joan Rivers died Thursday afternoon, a week after being admitted into New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital for cardiac arrest. The comedienne was 81. Daughter Melissa Rivers announced that Joan passed peacefully, surrounded by family and friends. Allover the Internet the outpouring of grief was full as fans remembered Joan’s snarky comments and quotes that kept us in stitches. Even in death, she continues to keep us laughing and enlightened on life, love, and dying. Here are our favorite Joan Rivers quotes to live by …
10. “Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”
9. “People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”
8. “A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.”
7. “I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door—or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
6. “We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.”
5. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God’s gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
4. “I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive. Things are happening.”
3. “Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly – hurt, bitterness, grief, and, most of all, fear”
2. “Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.”
1. “No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”