Ani DiFranco Quotes

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.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

I have a rendezvous with life.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

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

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Control your destiny or somebody will.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

Who can control his fate?

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Your will shall decide your destiny.