Sometimes it seems like we don’t really have a choice. It feels like what we do, where we have to go, and ultimately who we become has already been decided for us.<\/p>\n
We feel powerless.<\/p>\n
In the end, however, it’s your life and only you will decide what type of life you will live and what type of person you will become.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.\u201d<\/em> Sometimes it seems like we don’t really have a choice. It feels like what we do, where we have to go, and ultimately who we become has already been decided for us. We feel powerless. In the end, however, it’s your life and only you will decide what type of50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,22],"tags":[164,166,163,32,34,43,42,33,31,72,165,167,168,169],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","category-success","tag-emerson-quotes","tag-emerson-quotes-about-success","tag-emerson-quotes-self-reliance","tag-image-quotes","tag-image-quotes-about-life","tag-image-quotes-about-life-tumblr","tag-image-quotes-and-sayings","tag-image-quotes-for-facebook","tag-image-quotes-to-live-by","tag-inspirational-image-quotes","tag-ralph-waldo-emerson","tag-ralph-waldo-emerson-quotes","tag-ralph-waldo-emerson-quotes-about-life","tag-ralph-waldo-emerson-quotes-to-be-yourself"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Emerson-Image-Quote-Destined.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Luu2-5p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n~Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"