George Saunders Quotes

I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

Every day is a new journey for me, and I feel like, in my lifetime, I've been blessed to experience such a lot.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.