Laini Taylor Quotes

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

You learn to accept your own reality.

The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.

Accept what you cannot control.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

Subconsciously - I didn't know it then, I realize it today when I know a little bit more about the mind and the brain - I fought like I didn't deserve to live.

I'm of a generation that doesn't expect automatic happiness, so I feel incredibly lucky.

I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.

What I've had to learn is that I'm also fragile.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I don't really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.