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Quotes About Freewill

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
~ Charles Dickens
I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?
~ Charles Dickens
Life: A compromise between Fate and Freewill.
~ Elbert Hubbard
You have a choice every day of what your life will be. You cannot change your past. You cannot change the actions of others. But you can change the things you do and the things that are done to you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The thing about our lives is that. We have to accept that people make their own choices, and we're not responsible for those choices, even if they're our family.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Your little choices good or bad, is up to you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Everyone has freewill, but few know how to use it wisely.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Yet it is clear that we cannot choose not to choose, for not choosing is a choice from which consequences flow, and the inner split between soul and world widens.
~ James Hollis
We all make choices. We all have to live with them.
~ James Patterson
SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN FATE, OTHERS DON'T. I DO, and I don't. It may seem at times as if invisible fingers move us about like puppets on strings. But for sure, we are not born to be dragged along. We can grab the strings ourselves and adjust our course at every crossroad, or take off at any little trail into the unknown.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of use and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose.
~ Og Mandino
There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
be miserable or motivate yourself whatever has to be done its always your choice
~ Wayne W. Dyer
The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
~ Harvey Fierstein
De todas las criaturas vivientes, sólo el ser humano tiene, en el grado más alto, la facultad de elegir y expresar su voluntad,
~ Harvey Spencer Lewis
God created strategy by allowing choice,
~ Lawrence Freedman
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!
~ Earl Nightingale
Fussell, Chris: "'Life is a series of choices—take accountability for yours.
~ Timothy Ferriss
seguir el camino de nuestra perdición por nuestra propia elección.
~ Daniel Defoe
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.
~ Neil Gaiman
When Zeno, who did not believe in slavery, was beating his slave for some offense, the slave pleaded, in mitigation, that by his master's philosophy he had been destined from all eternity to commit this fault; to which Zeno replied, with the calm of a sage, that on the same philosophy he, Zeno, had been destined to beat him for it.
~ Will Durant
When Zeno, who did not believe in slavery, was beating his slave for some offense, the slave pleaded, in mitigation, that by his master's philosophy he had been destined from all eternity to commit this fault; to which Zeno replied, with the calm of a sage, that on the same philosophy he, Zeno, had been destined to beat him for it.
~ Will Durant
They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced or were indignant, reasoned, imagining that they knew what they were doing and did it of their own free will, but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.
~ Leo Tolstoy