Jenny Han Quotes

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

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.

It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring.

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

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

There's only so much you can control in life.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

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 can't predict the future.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

No matter what you thought your plans were, that's not how things are going to work out, and that's the only way you can really, I think, live successfully.

You can't control everything.

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

I'm not at the point of accepting it yet - but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever.

As for the future, you can never predict it, so I don't even think about it.

Nothing ever goes to plan. As soon as you are OK with that, everything is much easier.

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.