Nina Simone Quotes

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

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

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

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Conditions we face are the result of choices made and problems unmet.

Parents are one's companions in life but not partakers of one's karma.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler