“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”— Julia Glass, amazon.com
“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.”— Clarice Lispector, amazon.com
“Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.”— Tiffanie DeBartolo, amazon.com
“Life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you.”— Nafisa Haji, amazon.com
“Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up e…”— Kevin Brockmeier, amazon.com
“Happiness and unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?”— Donald L. Hicks, amazon.com
“Time passes in moments... moments which, rushing past define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen, to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which w…”— Gillian Anderson, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries. What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have…”— Carol Matas, amazon.com
“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“Everyone has their own path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every day. To try to predict the places we'll go and the people w…”— Noah Hawley, amazon.com
“This game has got to be about more than winning. You're part of something here... along the way, I want you to cherish it, because when it's gone, it's gone forever.”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com