RM Quotes

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

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

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.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

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.

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

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

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

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

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

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.

Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (Sajhë) said, seeking an answer. Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.

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

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.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

You shape your own destiny.

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