What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.
Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with certain career milestones preceding whatever you may want in your personal life. Unfortunately, life doesn't know it is supposed to follow a schedule.
You're never promised your next breath.
You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.
We can never protect 100% of the population against 100% of the vicissitudes of life.
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
I don't make plans for my future. I have learned that you cannot predict what will happen.
Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
I was a struggling army wife going to community college who didn't know what to do with my life.
Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
Life is anything but predictable.
Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely.
Life's a rollercoaster. You're up one minute; you're down one minute. But who doesn't like rollercoasters?
I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.
I'm as flawed as the next person. But maybe I inspire women because I'm an example that you should never assume that where you are in life or what you're doing is going to remain exactly as it is forever.
Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.
I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.
If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
