Tom Robbins Quotes

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: 'If I am responsible for my suffering, then it is simple, I can drop it. It is my choice. I will not choose it any more.'

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

My choice is what I choose to be.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

You shape your own destiny.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

There are no limits to what you can create for you, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will only attract like forces to you. So let all others create the life they want.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

Your personal freedom to experience yourself and life as you wish is not being limited. Step into your choices and stop telling yourself that you can't, when what you really mean is that you don't want other people to feel the way you think that are going to feel when they see you making the choices you really want to make.

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.