Tonya Sh

“The idea of determinism, he said, is that everything that happens, and every decision or action you make, is "causally inevitable." Why? Because everything is caused by something else: a preceding action, event or situation. [...] He said people can only act as they actually do. A murderer, for example, will inevitably murder because his childhood, his genes, his brain chemistry, his socioeconomic situation, his fear of rejection, the convenient proximity of a defenseless woman on a dark street corner, will all lead him, inevitably, to murder.
Someone said, quite passionately as I recall, as if we were speaking of a specific murder and not a hypothetical one, "But he chose to murder! He had free will!"
The bearded man said he himself was a "hard determinist" and therefore did not believe in free will. [...]
If free will doesn't exist, if all your decisions and actions are inevitable, are you still required to apologize for them?”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it—it’s just easier if you do.”
― Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

“Don’t make the same mistakes that everyone else makes. Make wonderful mistakes. Make the kind of mistakes that make people so shocked that they have no other choice but to be a little impressed.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things