“It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.”
O. Henry book Whirligigs
"The Roads We Take"
Whirligigs (1910)
“Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.”
On Being a Real Person (1943)
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American pastor 1878–1969Related quotes
José Ortega Y Gasset book The Revolt of the Masses
We can quite well turn away from our true destiny, but only to fall a prisoner in the deeper dungeons of our destiny. … Theoretic truths not only are disputable, but their whole meaning and force lie in their being disputed, they spring from discussion. They live as long as they are discussed, and they are made exclusively for discussion. But destiny — what from a vital point of view one has to be or has not to be — is not discussed, it is either accepted or rejected. If we accept it, we are genuine; if not, we are the negation, the falsification of ourselves. Destiny does not consist in what we feel we should like to do; rather is it recognised in its clear features in the consciousness that we must do what we do not feel like doing.
Source: The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Chapter XI: The Self-Satisfied Age
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Il legame tra noi e la musica consiste nello scegliere ciò che ci piace e ci fa star bene, non ciò che ci viene imposto.
Source: prevale.net
“Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.”
Anita Stansfield (1961) American writer
Source: Where the Heart Leads
“What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.”
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
Ships and Havens, ch. 2 (1898).
“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
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
Psychedelic Society (1984)
Context: !-- ~28m57s -->Because too much we have lived in the light of the idea that your ideology will be dictated to you essentially by geography! And if you're born in India, you'll find out that the Cosmos is one way; if you're born in Brooklyn, you find out it's another way. What we need to do is transcend these localized grids of fate, which make us what we are but don't want to be.