" You will love. You will hurt. You will dream. And you will die. Each man's past if your future.
'Then what is the point?' I asked. 'If all has been seen and done?'
'The question,' she replied 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You not pick the destination, only the path. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3, Part 1 of 6)