Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

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.

I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.

The past is what the past is.

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

The changes were inevitable and one has to accept them gracefully

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

there is nothing to be done. only accept it... and hurt.

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.