...the hinges of destiny.

"Choices are the hinges of destiny." -Edwin Markham

Every life ... 'has a sister ship,'...

"Every life, Transtromer writes, 'has a sister ship,' one that follows 'quite another route' than the one we ended up taking. We want it to be otherwise, but it cannot be: the people we might have been live in a different, phantom life than the people we are. ... I'll never know and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. IT was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore." -Sugar; Dear Sugar, the Rumpus Advice Column

I believe God raises you like...

"I believe God raises you like a parent does. Teaches you his values and things and, as you grow up, you learn from him so that when you become an adult God can step back and release you into the world (like your parents do when you move out). / Like a parent, God can trust that what he taught you over the years will be enough to help you make the right choices in life, to lead a happy life, a fulfilled life." -goddessastra

One of abundance's many corollaries...

"One of abundance's many corollaries is that the brighter your life, the more you attract... everything. / Moths and butterflies. / At which point you begin learning what to celebrate and what to let fly on by. / Or who." -TUT; A Note from the Universe

You have the choice to make...

"You have the choice to make your fantasy a reality, and your reality a fantasy." -Blazingfireyes

If love was a choice...

"If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?" -AnkaraStark

I can relate moments...

"I can relate moments you have yet to see, and I can unravel possible threads. But remember, the future I see may not be the one in which you walk." -The Longest Journey

Most people are drawn along...

"Most people are drawn along by events, by fate, like a carriage after a horse. But some people know how to steer the horse, to change paths at will." -The Longest Journey

But you have not been 'chosen'...

"But you have not been 'chosen'. You choose for yourself what you are and what you will be." -The Longest Journey

There is no 'chosen one'...

"There is no 'chosen one'... There are only those who would, and those who wouldn't." -The Longest Journey