Maggie Q Quotes

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.

I worked in an office for eight years, so I know what it's like to slog through for money, but now to be able travel the world and sing to so many people, it's a complete dream come true.

I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person who you stand behind in line or sit next to on an aeroplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

I became an actor by accident.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

I changed my life today. What did you do?