Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.
You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are!
The results of your life reflect the standards you've set.
I believe you can never fail in life or love. You just produce results. It's up to you how you interpret those results.
It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.
Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.
I still believe on some level that at the end, somebody will say, 'You get an A-minus for your life.' And it's not true. It's not true.