Lisa Ling Quotes

Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.

I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my fridge is filled with hot sauce.

There's a huge piece of humanity that's missing - a huge piece - and our [American] culture is infant, comparatively speaking, to these folks who have been around for thousands of years.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.

I had a planned C-section and I cried the entire day before I had the baby.

I’m a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

We've got to stop thinking everybody who is Muslim is a terrorist.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

I don't trust lawyers and journalists.

Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.

My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions.

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.

I hadn’t wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

Our time on Earth is so random.

We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.