Neal Shusterman 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.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

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.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

Decision equals destiny.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.

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

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

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

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

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

I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.