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life is what you make it en · X

Meanings

1. You are in control of your own destiny through choices and actions, rather than being a passive victim of fate.
   • ‘People used to say: “life is what you make it”.’ ‘That, my dear Bill, outside of very narrow limits is just a load of - well, I don’t want to be rude.’ 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 248:

Relateds

every man is the architect of his own fortune