Nina Tassler Quotes

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

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 just keep surprising myself, I guess.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

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.

My life is my message.

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.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.