You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don't make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren't much fun anyway.
Sam HarrisMots clés free-will shame pride
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
John PerkinsMots clés free-will fate destiny economy
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V.S. NaipaulMots clés free-will freedom expectations peer-pressure limitations lack-of-vision
A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
Idries ShahWe have choice,” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given...
Dianna HardyMots clés choice free-will choosing choices-and-consequences mary-and-gwain
Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.
Roger ZelaznyMots clés pain free-will eternity time melancholy change maturity reconciliation the-keys-to-december
Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn’t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn’t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system—learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention—may radically transform one’s life.
Sam HarrisMots clés determinism free-will inspiration philosophy change self-improvement
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous HuxleyMots clés optimism pessimism free-will lunch
And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.
Elizabeth WeinMots clés free-will work choices professions
Free will...it's all the rage these days
Lauren KateMots clés love passion free-will
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