Pema Chodron Quotes

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Nothing is inevitable in history.

The future is unwritten.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Life is fundamentally up for grabs

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

What happens next is up to you.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

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

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.