Ali Smith Quotes

Fate is like a train. When it flies past, you can choose if you want to get on it or not, to say no or say yes.

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

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

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

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

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

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.

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

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.

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.

If only I could change my destiny and be a man, …

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

I don't think our destiny is tied to anyone who walks away from our lives.

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

Wherever people find themselves in trouble, or at some kind of crossroads, the series proclaims you are free to choose. That's the deepest lesson of 'Star Wars.'

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.

People make their own destinies.

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.