Sung Kang Quotes

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.