Trip Lee Quotes

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

While living I want to live well.

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.

I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply flawed individual - but this is it. We're all just living it and... bless us all.

The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.

Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.

One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

Do not become the slave of your model.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.