Sarah Dessen Quotes

Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.

I just roll with the punches.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

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.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.

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

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

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

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.

I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring.

No matter what you thought your plans were, that's not how things are going to work out, and that's the only way you can really, I think, live successfully.

I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.

Change never bothers me, not really.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.

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

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.

For me, I just want to take things as they come.

Life shows us all the time, really and truly, that you're not in control of most things, but at the same time, the things that you are able to control, you should definitely hold on to that. But it's okay that you can't control every aspect of your life.