Sarah Dessen Quotes

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

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'

Everybody has their own path and I believe everything happens for a reason and you kind of just rock with it.

I'ma always stick to my roots, but whatever life brings, that's what is meant.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

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.

I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

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

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

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.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.