The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
Anne TylerRead
There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life is about making the best of your circumstances and accepting whatever comes your way.
This quote by Anne Tyler emphasizes that there is no ideal version of life; rather, the authenticity of life lies in the reality we create for ourselves. It encourages individuals to embrace their journeys, acknowledge their limitations, and strive to do their best with the resources and situations available to them, advocating for a realistic and pragmatic view of existence.
Themes
LifeAcceptancePragmatismBest EffortRealism
In practice
Example use cases
A motivational speech about overcoming life's challenges.
More from Anne Tyler
All quotes βI don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
Anne TylerRead
I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
Anne TylerRead
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
Anne TylerRead
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
Anne TylerRead
And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
Anne TylerRead
Similar quotes
We didn't have money all the time to do laundry. A lot of the time, we didn't have soap or hot water. We were smart kids academically, but we'd go to school smelling.
Viola DavisRead
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable
Martin Luther King, Jr.Read
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
Barbara KingsolverRead
I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.
J. B. PriestleyRead
I've always approached my career and my life, you know, one day at a time, as if this was the last day that I'm going, because you never know as an athlete and as a dancer. You never know what can happen today, tomorrow.
Misty CopelandRead