Scott Westerfeld Quotes

All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life.

We don't know where we'll end up, but making moments matter - taking a step back to see something from a different vantage point and investing in your core values - can lead to a world of surprises.

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

I think finding the way in life is the hardest part. At every stage of life, every trial, every success, you know, you're going into some kind of fog. There isn't a plan that suddenly reveals itself, and you go, "Ta-da! Now I understand."

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.