“But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Sena Jeter Naslund (1942) American writer
Source: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
“By giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.”
Eknath Easwaran (1910–1999) spiritual teacher, author of books on meditation and spiritual practice, and translator and interpreter of …
[Words to live by: A daily guide to leading an exceptional life, Easwaran, Eknath, w:Eknath Easwaran, 2005, Nilgiri, Tomales, CA, 978-1-58638-016-8] (page 12: comment for Jan. 3 on quote by Shelley) (work originally published 1990)
“It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 193
“Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.”
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 231
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life