Liane Moriarty Quotes

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

You have to take everything as it comes.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

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.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

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

I don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.