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Love Quote by Ruth Buzzi

"Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!"

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Ruth Buzzi’s line carries the particular authority of a performer who made a career out of being underestimated, then indispensable. The “hills and valleys” metaphor is deliberately unglamorous: not the heroic mountain, not the abyss, just the uneven terrain of a working life. It fits an actress whose fame was built in sketch comedy, where status is always provisional and the next job is never guaranteed. The phrasing matters: “all sorts” suggests experience, not theory, and “sometimes” repeats like a gentle shrug, sanding down the sharp edges of disappointment without denying it.

The subtext is a quiet rebellion against the culture of the singular dream. “What you had your heart set out on” evokes the narrative we’re sold early: pick one path, want it hard enough, and the world will comply. Buzzi slips in the counter-programming: the heart is sincere, but it’s not in charge. That could read as consolation; it also reads as liberation. If life reroutes you, you’re not necessarily failing, you’re being rewritten.

What makes the quote work is its insistence on surprise as a form of luck you can’t plan for. “Even better” isn’t motivational-poster optimism; it’s the pragmatism of someone who’s watched doors close and then found a more fitting room. Coming from a comedic actress, it doubles as a performance note: the best outcomes are often the ones you didn’t script, the laugh you didn’t force, the character you didn’t expect to become your signature.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Buzzi, Ruth. (2026, January 15). Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/life-has-all-sorts-of-hills-and-valleys-and-159653/

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Buzzi, Ruth. "Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/life-has-all-sorts-of-hills-and-valleys-and-159653/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/life-has-all-sorts-of-hills-and-valleys-and-159653/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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Ruth Buzzi (born July 24, 1936) is a Actress from USA.

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