Sun Ra Quotes

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

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.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

I will make this world a better place, whether they like it or not. That’s the fun of being Queen.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

We create our fate everyday

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

Your will shall decide your destiny.

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.