It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.

We’ll do what life always does—defy expectations.

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life — daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

Instead of asking "what do I want from life?", a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?"

We do not ask life what the meaning of life is. Life asks us, what is the meaning of your life. And life demands our answer.

Life is not what is promised, But what is sought. These bones, not what is found, But what we’ve fought. Our truth, not what we said, But what we thought. Our lesson, all we have taken & all we have brought.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

We must deal with life as it is, not with life as we wish it were or as it may be ten years or fifty years from now.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.