Douglas Adams Quotes

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

It's funny how life works. You end up sometimes back where you started.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

I'm taking opportunities as they come; I really am. Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me in my life they're for a very specific reason, something for me to learn. And it's coming at the right time.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I'm a believer of destiny, and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs, and I've seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

Life drew me and I followed it.

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.