Susanna Kearsley Quotes

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

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

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

You can't control everything that comes to you.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you.

You must shift your sail with the wind.

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

Give up the thought that you have control. You don't. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.

Surrender is working with what happens.

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

You cannot control everything - you try to control what you can control.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it's going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

What you cannot control, you must accept.