
“We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Quoted in Ruysbroeck the Admirable (1925) by Alfred Wautier d'Aygalliers and Fred Rothwell, p. 175
“We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 193
“Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.”
Commenting on surrealist H. R. Giger. [Martin, Douglas, H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist, Dies at 74; His Vision Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/arts/h-r-giger-swiss-artist-dies-at-74-his-vision-gave-life-to-alien-creature.html, 14 May 2014, New York Times, 14 May 2014]
Prologue
Jacques le Fataliste (1796)
“From God we have come and to God we must return.”
Response after receiving the sentence of death.
Trial proceedings (15 September 1931)