Philip Roth Quotes

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.

I just roll with the punches.

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.

You can't always have your way. Sometimes life is going to go a different direction. But you've got to learn how to adjust, and you've got to learn how to deal with it.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

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

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Change is not threatening.

I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.

If you get stuck too much with the way you want the world to be, you will find that the world passes you by.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

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

Some people can accept the changes in life in a mature way but for most others, it is never easy.

Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

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.

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

You got to adjust to how your life is.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

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.'