Lisa Lutz Quotes

....You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually they'll eat away at you. But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. And this is what I figured out on my own: Over the course of a lifetime, people change, but not as much as you'd think. Nobody really grows up.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

I've had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they're not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.

Everything is a learning experience for me.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .