Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

I have never believed in my own ability to succeed at everything. I recognize I'm a human being like everybody else, and I make mistakes and fall short time and again.

Before 'The Last Samurai,' I couldn't believe I could do that. I didn't think I would be able to explain myself and my feelings in English, in a different language. But I could.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

After a while, you reach a certain point to where you know what your talent is, you know what you're capable of, and you have to not care.

Through recovery, I've been able to do so much good stuff.

I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial 'cause if I hadn't done it then, maybe I'd never have done it.

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

I'm accepting of who I am and how diverse I am and honoring that.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.