Anna Quindlen Quotes

We obtain things when we no longer want them.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

I bought my son an indestructible toy. Yesterday he left it in the driveway. It broke my car.

If I missed out on some really big action, I’m going to be royally pissed off!

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens.

I have a belief: What belongs to you, comes to you.

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

Abundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

The things that come most quickly into your life are the things that you BELIEVE in the most. You can only bring to you what you BELIEVE, so you must BELIEVE to receive what you want.

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

If you say to the universe, "Gimme, gimme, gimme," which is what a lot of the work around the law of attraction says because of a misinterpretation, then the universe gives you back what you offered out. You get more "gimme, gimme, gimme." "Gimme" means you don't have enough. You have a shortage. The universe just keeps giving you more shortage because of what you're thinking and saying.