Giambattista Vico Quotes

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

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.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Every day is another something that comes along.

You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.

We simply have never been able to predict what our next challenge will be.

A life of anybody is not perfect; there is always things that happen, and that is what makes it interesting.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

Trouble is part of your life

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.