Gordon Bethune Quotes

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

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.

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

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

Decisions determine destiny.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

What if destiny doesn't care?

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

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

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.