John Galsworthy Quotes

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

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

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

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.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

I guess you deal with what you get.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.

It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.