Shannon Lucid Quotes

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?

You can end up living your life pretty incrementally, and that's boring.

I believe you must enjoy every phase of your life.

Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.