Victoria Pratt Quotes

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I want to live a full life - period.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.