Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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.

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

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.

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.

No man or woman can live another's fate

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

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

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.

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

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.