Angela Bowie Quotes

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

Like everybody, I've stayed up at night regretting things - Why did I do that, say that - but at the end of the day, I really do believe everything happens for a reason.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.

I don't regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that's why I am here.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.

When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.

I don't really believe in regrets. I think everything happens as it should, and everything is an opportunity to learn.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Looking back at the 'Wonder Years,' I see things I did well, and I see things I did very, very badly.

I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason.

I'm very good in letting things go; there's always new things, and I'm a big believer in 'everything happens for a reason' kind of thing.

I talk about past relationships in my book, all of which I would never regret, as they played huge parts in who I am today.

We all have relationships - I've had relationships in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'That was a mistake.'

I really believe that some things happen for a reason, and they make you a better person.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

There's not one moment from my journey that I'd want to change. Everything happens for a reason.

Everything is happening for a reason, it's preparing you for bigger things.

At some point, when I was in Chicago for maybe eight years, I never thought I would leave Chicago. I wish it would have happened that way, but everything happens for a reason.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. But I was pretty certain as I sat there that tonight that if it hadn't been for Eddie, I wouldn't have found myself on the PCT. And though it was true that everything I felt for him sat like a boulder in my throat, this realization made the boulder sit ever so much lighter. He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.