Amy Hempel Quotes

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

I think the future takes care of itself.

There's a lot of times when I feel nihilistic, and lose hope, like I'm just lost in the world. But there's a lot of times when I can kinda be in control of destiny.

I learned when I was a kid not to worry so much about things because it's all going to work out. What will be will be.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

I know that there is absolutely good in the world.

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

I'm sure we're gonna meet some bumps in the road, but if it's meant to be it will happen.

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.

Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Sometimes when you love people, you want to believe they're good.

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.

The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.

Everything happens for a reason.

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

You never know how things are going to turn out.