Jose Mujica Quotes

I don't see myself with or without children - whatever will be, will be.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life.

I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?

I always have moments on set where I think, 'Oh my God, this is my life right now.' And it could've been so different.

No one sets their life out and says, 'Boy, this is what I think I'm going to go through.'

Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything.

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

What you cannot control, you must accept.

In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

What else may hap, to time I will commit.