Lloyd Alexander Quotes

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

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

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

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

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

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

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

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

A man's character is his fate.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

You can't want an amazing life and then resent it when it happens to you. Destiny has very little to do with what you think and what you want to do and even what you might like.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.