Melissa Etheridge Quotes

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

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

Fate pulls you in different directions.

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.

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.

Fate is like a train. When it flies past, you can choose if you want to get on it or not, to say no or say yes.

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.

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

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

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

Timing in life is everything.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

Timing in life is everything.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.