Ian Somerhalder
There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.Collection: Positive Thinking
The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.Collection: Rivers
We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.Collection: Compassion
True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.Collection: Better Off
Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.Collection: Media
You want a love that consumes you, you want passion and adventure and even a little danger.Collection: Passion
Love has so many unique yet consistent forms.Collection: Unique
Laughter is the best medicine...smilin g is secondCollection: Laughter
A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'Collection: Relationship
I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated.Collection: Vampire Diaries
Together, we can bring our planet's heartbeat back.Collection: Together We Can
It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.Collection: Growing
We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.Collection: Depends
You cant get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.Collection: People
There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.Collection: Animal
Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts - it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to recognize that with every choice you make, you are voting either for or against the kind of world you wish to see... When you assume this as a way of being, your choices become easier. Using a reusable water bottle, recycling and making conscious daily consumer choices are just a few of the ways our incredible cast is green.Collection: Water Bottles
We all love guarantees in life.Collection: Guarantees In Life
Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.Collection: Hurt
I wanted to take part in this campaign because it's so easy to forget the many women who live their lives in fear because of domestic violence. Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.Collection: Hurt
It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.Collection: Impossible
For me, commitment boils down to honor.Collection: Commitment
Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.Collection: Beach
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.Collection: Animal
Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have also brought many species to the brink of extinction...The American people that I interact with through my IS Foundation work do not want to allow this to happen; they do not want to let these species go without a fight; and they see the way in which nature provides for people around the world.Collection: Fighting
I learned that Canadians are furious because Canada is exporting water to the United States. Their lakes are shrinking because they're selling water to the U.S. We water our golf courses and every ice cream shop and every coffee shop in the country because the health inspector has said you have to have a steady stream of water cleaning your spoons that you're frothing milk with and their ice cream scoopers. Are you kidding me? We're wasting all this water while we're sucking it from Canada and they're watching their lakes shrink?Collection: Country
The word love carries the same vibration in any language.Collection: Vibrations
We have so many alternatives, like kenaf. It produces more crop, it's hardier, and creates incredible paper products. Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm inviting anyone else who thinks the same to reach out and get involved with our think tanks around creating tree free alternatives ASAP.Collection: Thinking
If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness.Collection: Opportunity
My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.Collection: Smart
Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make coral? Our heart. We simply cannot survive without our heart; therefore, it's mandatory we heal and protect our coral reefs now.Collection: Ocean
Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.Collection: Life Lesson
We ultimately have to find truth in the material, and I think that transfers onto the screen. Obviously there's varying degrees of it, and we don't get it right all the time [laughs], but I think when it feels grounded, it's because we recognize the truth in the material.Collection: Thinking
The world is so tremendously spectacular that every visual, sense, and sparked connection swells my unrestrained passion for life. I find I feel this the most when I am immersed in nature and sliding into the bloodstream of the wilderness.Collection: Passion
Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.Collection: Passion
The only way I'm going to be able to really, truly live a moment is if it actually means something to me.Collection: Mean
We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever. When things pile sky-high on top of each other, I try to take a moment to: breathe, smile, repeat. This mantra helps me align to the reality outside of the superfluous noise.Collection: Reality
We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.Collection: Wise
Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.Collection: Smart
I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.Collection: Expression
Sleeping with a witch would probably be pretty interesting. I hear that, and I understand that.Collection: Sleep
Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.Collection: Teacher
I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.Collection: Oil
My mom spent every dollar she ever had on getting me modeling/acting classes when I was a kid. I'm really grateful for that foresight. She's brilliant, kind, and so loving as a mother. I was told a million times in a day that she loved me.Collection: Mom
We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.Collection: Regret
All the women in my life have really made my life what it is, and I feel so fortunate, so whole because of them.Collection: Made
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.Collection: Rivers
Commitment is making a choice to follow through or to honor. Engagement and guarantee - we all love guarantees in life. Making a commitment, whether it's for something like climate change or to my family, or even to my fans - what that means to me is, whether on paper or verbally or spiritually, making a promise to guarantee that I will fulfill whatever agreement we have.Collection: Mean