Knut Hamsun Quotes

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!

Theories and grand ideas are important, but they seldom unfold as planned.

Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys.

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

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.

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

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