Joseph Bruchac Quotes

Your genetics is not your destiny.

Blood is not destiny.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

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

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.