Mercedes Lackey Quotes

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

I do things that I actually love and understand.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beauty and also the horror. A sense of my own purpose in this life. Love...

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.