Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.

Quote by Viggo Mortensen

Topics: Life Quotes

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or...

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or...

I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being...

I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being...

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste...

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste...

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is...

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But...

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director...

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director...

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a...

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a...

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously...

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But...

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of...

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of...

I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such...

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such...

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant,...

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant,...

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse...

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse...

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks...

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks...

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider...

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider...

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and...

If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and...

I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to...

I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to...