I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.
It is technically a failure when you don't try.
Boredom is a great motivator.
Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.
Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.
Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.
Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.
Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.
It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.
You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.
I think that life force is invaluable.
Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.
My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer or someone creative and breathing empathy and life into a character people can then identify with, that they'd feel less alone.
I think everybody has a hard time connecting, but as you get older and you want more and you expect more and you know more, it's just different. If you start wanting too much from it without it naturally unfolding, then that makes it bad. If you start not wanting anything, then you are not serious. I mean it's just this conundrum of issues.
"I think that life force is invaluable."
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