A Quote by Jacques Delille

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

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Choose Chooses Fate Friends Our Relatives

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Jacques Delille
French - Poet
June 22, 1738 - May 1, 1813

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

Oswald Chambers

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

Simon Pegg

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Delille

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.

Thomas Sowell

The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

Swami Muktananda

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

Gabriel Iglesias

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

Stephen Covey

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessnness, we do choose how we live.

Joseph Epstein

Whatever your views on Pakistan, our effort was that we have to engage Pakistan. They are our neighbours. We can choose our friends, but we cannot choose our neighbours.