Kami Garcia Quotes

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

Events are not a matter of chance.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

Your will shall decide your destiny.

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

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.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

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

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.