Kate Mosse Quotes

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.

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

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

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."

Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

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.

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

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

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

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

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.

Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person is born a prisoner in North Korea, this person is born Carlos the Dwarf. Some of these things are out of our control, but that doesn't mean that they can't be changed. A character, just like a person in real life, is a summation of her actions and feelings. Our actions and emotions are not performed against nothing, they do not arise from dust, we are in constant friction, and/or flow with our surroundings.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

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