Laura Esquivel Quotes

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.

I don't think our destiny is tied to anyone who walks away from our lives.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

You shape your own destiny.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

We create our own destiny.

Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (Sajhë) said, seeking an answer. Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing.

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.

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?