Lisa Ling Quotes

Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that unless that's out in the open and people are discussing it, then our healthy democracy is not so healthy.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

Our time on Earth is so random.

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions.

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!