Byron Katie Quotes

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

You never know about life.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.

But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

Control is an illusion.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.

It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.

We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.