Karen Allen Quotes

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

I have enormous respect for the human being because they're asked to take on a lot. And I don't think there's any easy solution. But I think the journey is what you have to finally be satisfied with, but not be afraid of the lessons one has to learn... it ends up as grace. And you grow; you find a way to continue.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.

You have to go through the ups and downs to really be able to root yourself and focus on what's important.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.

It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.