James D. Houston Quotes

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason.

I don't want to use the word 'instinct,' but when something good happens - something big or good in my life - I have this sensation that it was inevitable. Anything careerwise, 'Lord of the Rings,' 'Rudy,' or getting married. Which is weird, because you don't ever want to be ungrateful for what you have.

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

Everything happens for a reason. Say if I don't get a role, it may be that it would have stopped me getting another role.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

I think that things happen for a reason.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

History had unexpected duties in store for us.

I think everything happens at exactly the time it's supposed to.