We hope you find inspiration and insight among these nuggets drawn from Nick Lore’s interviews and speeches:

"Don't let the fact that you can't do everything you want keep you from doing everything you love."

"Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoeba to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives."

"A passionately lived life is not always comfortable…it involves being open to all of life--the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well as the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats."

"If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong decision. That's all there is to it...The worst thing you can do is wimp out and spend your life in suspended animation...refusing to make a choice because it may not be a perfect one."

"When life is about caring for the orchard, rather than picking the apples, you get more apples…It is quite paradoxical, but as soon as you give up trying to make yourself happy, you are!"

"It takes courage to be the author of your life. There is no such thing as feeling "courageous"; it is an imaginary emotion. Courage consists of doing what you said you would do even when you don't want to. In the face of danger you have a choice to be the delegate of either your commitments or your feelings. It's as simple and as difficult as that."