Chris Zylka Quotes

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

The more I speak and travel, I realize I don't have it that bad. There are so many people that have it so much worse than I do.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

I don't think anybody really wants to know their limits.

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

We shouldn't all be fixated just on what's not available. We should take a step back and look at the total that's available, because there's a mountain of information about us.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Just because something is not happening to you doesn't mean that it never will.

I view every day just as an opportunity.

A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

I don't take anything for granted anymore, I'll tell you that.

You only recognize how good something is if you've been through the bad.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a beautiful morning, it's only a beautiful morning because we don't have a broken leg or hemorrhoids or something.

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.