Novalis Quotes

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

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.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

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

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

Life doesn't just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

My future is one I must make myself.

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.