Anna Quindlen Quotes

All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.

I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

Life drew me and I followed it.

My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

Life is crazy. It goes in directions that you could never guess.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

We need to live our truth. We need to discover ourselves. And no matter how much you prepare for everything, life will always find a way to surprise you.

Learn your past, find your path.

One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.

Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

I don't know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I think that's a mistake for me personally. I don't know how much it's about the journey, but it's more about the process.

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.

You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.

Live life on your own path. Everybody's got something different. You can't keep up with all those people, so you better keep up with yourself.

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.