Julia Glass Quotes

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

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.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

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

You shape your own destiny.

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

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

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

I believe that destiny has a big role to play in everyone's life.

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

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

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

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

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

Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies.

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 embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.