George Saunders Quotes

I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.

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

I'm trying to just take things as they come, not to try to expect too much, just do my job and hope things work out.

Things are constantly in flux and changing, and as crazy-making as that can be, it's also the thing that can get you through tough times - 'Well, things change.'

Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.

The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

I tend to worry about each "emergency" or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life - everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I just roll with the punches.

Take whatever happens and try to make it work.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

In sport, you just have to take what you can get.

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally.

I'm just kind of more, like, I'm gonna take every day as it comes and that's gonna be good enough for me.

For me, you just get on with what's in front of you. It's always been the case.