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“Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.”

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Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.”

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Book:The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“We seal our fate with the choices we make.”

Choices Fate Seals

Author:Gloria Estefan

“The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.”

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Book:Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Source: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

“The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.”

Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

“Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?”

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Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.”

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Author:George Will

“Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.”

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Book:Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook

Source: Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.”

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.”

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Author:Allison Winn Scotch