Quote by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should live their lives, but none about their own.”

— Itayi Garande

“I have no way of knowing what we may be called upon to do for ourselves.”

— Shirley Jackson

“We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.”

— Shauna Niequist

“I'd prefer to think that we aren't all so mercilessly bound to our pasts.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than…

— Simon Van Booy

“Well, sometimes we don’t have any choice in how we’re talked about.”

— Brad Dennison

“But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future…

— Marisa de los Santos

“If you can just get a broad enough perspective on your life... you'll realize it's all unfolding perfectly. Right this very minute.”

— Paul Ian Guillermo

“I did not make any of the correct political reflections. I never do when things are happening. It seems to be always the case…

— George Orwell

“Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never really know,…

— Tom Xavier

“Have you decided yet what historical moment you would have most like to have witnessed with your own eyes and ears?”

— Padgett Powell

“We like to think we’re in charge of our own lives, but we ain’t.”

— Moira Young