“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
“In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
Context: One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
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“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”
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Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Variant: Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker