Helena Blavatsky Quotes

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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

Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.

We create our own destiny.

So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.

The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

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.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

Does our hand show in this?

We make our own history. The course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people. It is not so much the powerful leaders that determine our destiny as the much more powerful influence of the combined voices of the people themselves.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.