Mark Strand Quotes

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

That's what drives me - to be able to help people get to their own calling and find their own peace.

I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don't know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.

A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.