Gary Zukav Quotes

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

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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.

I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

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

Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?