We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.
– Idowu Koyenikan
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I can choose the way I live my life, but I cannot choose the date and place of my birth.
I can choose to love or hate them, but I cannot choose my family.
I can choose my friends and lovers, but I cannot make them choose me.
I can choose how many children I want, but I cannot choose if they will be given to me.
I can choose the treatment, but I cannot choose the illness.
I can choose to give up or to carry on, but I cannot choose the loss of a loved one.
I can choose the road on which I travel, but I cannot choose where it may end.
The rest is destiny and I can only pray that she smiles upon me.