The Life Quotes
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.
the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.
There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.
Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.
To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.
He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.