Frances Mayes Quotes

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Everything depends on which path you take.

But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

We do choose how we shall live

Decision equals destiny.

If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.