Quotes About Life Not Always Going As Planned

#1. Part of the answer to the question that life's roller-coaster ride repeatedly raises, why has this happened to me? is always: it is moral training and discipline, planned by my Heavenly Father to help me forward along the path of Chrislike virtue.

J.I. Packer

#2. I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.

Liz Phair

#3. Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.

Jeanette Coron

#4. I just want to tell you if that's what You have planned for me, if I am meant to be an obscure flower in the corner of the expansive garden, I will live there and I will love You and I will bloom just for You -- only, always, ever.

Sarah Thebarge

#5. Did you make plans."
"Nah. I tried once or twice, but they always went to hell. Eventually I just learned to let life take me where it wanted; it was easier that way. If you leave yourself open to possibilities, a lot might happen that you couldn't have planned for.

Lou Harper

#6. Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Amy Neftzger

#7. Sometimes, it doesn't take another person to mend a broken heart, it takes acceptance that things don't always go the way they were planned and just move on with life.
- Mend Her Broken Heart

Shaniah Blue

#8. Dennis hit him with the [Sheri] Tepper. It was a hardback book, six hundred pages of wonder and adventure and a little preachiness mixed in.

Margaret Ball

#9. If she'd learned nothing else, it was that sometimes things don't always work out the way anyone planned. Roundabouts and detours in life were often blessings in disguise.

Leah Atwood

#10. I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.

Iris Apfel

#11. Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

Paul G. Stoltz

#12. I gotta tell you, Davidson, I'm impressed," he said. "That took balls."
"Please," I said with a snort, "that took ovaries. Of which I have two."
"Have I mentioned that I'm a licensed gynecologist? If your ovaries ever need anything ...

Darynda Jones

#13. My life was being planned in sentences that started with 'We' instead of 'I', yet it felt like the most natural transition in the world.

Heather Demetrios

#14. I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.

CrimethInc.

#15. Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life.

Auliq Ice

#16. Though her life hadn't turned out anything like she'd planned, she knew that in the darkest times God was always working. Always.

Karen Kingsbury

#17. Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what makes it interesting. In life the first act is always exciting. The second act, that is where the depth comes in.

Joyce Van Patten

#18. Today I was reading a book about a movie that I thought I could relate to. I read approximately the first 15 words, before I realized that the authors note won't tell me much about the pages ahead of it.

Andrew King

#19. The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

Mark Cane

#20. Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been.

Kirsten Hubbard

#21. The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.

M.R. Gott

#22. Someday
you will understand
that life can't flow
as you always planned.

Lee Bennett Hopkins

#23. Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Steve Lopez

#24. When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith.

Craig Groeschel