Laura Schlessinger Quotes

You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.

In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.

You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.

Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.

It's better to just plough ahead. And if I say something they don't get, I just make fun of myself for assuming that everybody knows everything about where I live.

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161)

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

If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

You have to do things that do good for you and when there's an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.