Joanne Harris Quotes

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

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

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 a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

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.

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

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

We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

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

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

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

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.

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