India Arie Quotes

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

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.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

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

Change never bothers me, not really.

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.

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.'

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

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

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

You have to take everything as it comes.

When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

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.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

You can't control everything that comes to you.