Seneca the Younger Quotes

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

People make their own destinies.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

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.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

The final disease that nature inflicts on us will determine the atmosphere in which we take our leave of life, but our own choices should be allowed, insofar as possible, to be the decisive factor in the manner of our going.

It's my life and my death.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

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

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

The only ultimate power you have as a human being is over your choice to live or die. Everything else is chaos. If you try and think you have control over some of your life, essentially, that's the only real control you have, is whether you decide to exist.

Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'