“None of us can choose the manner of our passing.”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 10
“None of us can choose the manner of our passing.”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 10
“We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Frederick Douglass (lines 7-11), from Collected Poems (1985)
“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
Variant: And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
Source: The Winter Ghosts
Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)