Merle Shain Quotes

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

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

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

Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

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

Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

Life's what you make it

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make 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.

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

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

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

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

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

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

You have to make your own destiny.

I believe whatever has to happen will happen - you just need to stand up for yourself.

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