James Dashner Quotes

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

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

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

Diminish the influence of fate

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.

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

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

The soul of man createth its own destiny.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

Everyone has a choice. (Kiara) No, princess, they don’t. Choices aren’t always up to us. Life and circumstances can shred even the stoutest soul. No matter how pure and untainted you think you are, I promise you that you, too, can be shoved into the darkness, just like we were. (Syn)

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.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

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.