Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

After love, no one is what they were before.

We don't really know the ultimate outcome of our lives. All we can say is, "Fate has brought me thus far. This is where my life is right now, and I can either choose to stay here, or I can make a different turn that will take me somewhere else." I certainly am an advocate of taking a jump off the tallest mountain and just hoping a net appears. More often than not, when you take those leaps of faith, something really incredible happens. It might just take some time. You might take a long, hard journey, but the end of it is usually a great one, I find.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.

I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.