Kris Kristofferson Quotes

Surrender is working with what happens.

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.

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

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Surrender to the flow.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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.

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

When something hits you, you better go with it.

Everything works if you let it

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

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

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.

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

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.