Ho Xuan Huong Quotes

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

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.

There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

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

People make their own destinies.

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

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

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

I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

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.

You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.

The battle between free will and listening to the inner voice will remain eternal. Similarly, in the debate over material and spiritual rewards; you cannot have both, as the path to acquire each is different.

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.

I totally believe in opportunities. I don't believe in accidents. I just don't.