P. C. Cast Quotes

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

Your past is not your potential.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, And calls down punishment that is not merited.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.