Jonathan Maberry Quotes

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

Flying or falling, it's up to us.

If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.

Only you can control your future.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.