Joseph Benavidez Quotes

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

Surrender is working with what happens.

You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

If you can't get out of something, get into it.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.