Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Diminish the influence of fate

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

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

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

We are unable to recognize the laws of necessity if we believe we are free

Does our hand show in this?

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

We always have a choice.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

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

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

Your will shall decide your destiny.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."