Ron Carlson Quotes

I believe that we are a result of our past.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

One faces the future with one's past.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

I'm a believer of destiny, and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs, and I've seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I'm definitely one of those people who think that everything you do leads up to the moment where you are now.

I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason.

Parents are one's companions in life but not partakers of one's karma.

Life is a pre-existing condition.

You will never get anything in your life which is not written in your destiny.

I went to the ultimate high to an ultimate low. It's just how life goes, and everything happens for a reason.

It seems that I am destined always to be on trial.