Quotes About Destiny

How easy and wonderful it is to live in happy days and how bitter and accursed it is in miserable days! Why can't people save up the one to soften the pain of the other? Why is there always a chasm between the two? Where were you, what games were you playing when your fate was being decided? Why did you let them chop off your wings, without thinking, just when you needed them most, when you need to fly and not crawl from disaster?

There is something in a man's fate that has eyes that remember whether he has someone to come home to or not.

I might have wanted another destiny for myself, but others have theirs, and I have mine. And I'm not sorry about it. It's mine.

Aquello que debe ocurrir por voluntad del dios, difícil le resulta al hombre evitarlo, y la peor de las penas humanas es precisamente esta: prever muchas cosas y no ejercer sobre ellas poder alguno. HERODOTO

Miles meus contubernalis Dic mihi cras quis erit vivus Iacta pilum hostem neca Miles sum, miles romanus!

deeper joy comes from peace and love and knowing you are living the life you were meant to live. You

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate

Destiny is powerful but self-effort can modify it. Truth is all powerful.

Each thing is created for a purpose. The moment the purpose is achieved, it will perish. This

Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.

Human migration beyond Earth is our destiny, not as in something preordained, but in the sense of it being inevitable and necessary. The lot of humanity seems to be that of expanding consciousness into new territory.

Alice must already have known, even back then, when she first saw Fortune, when she was, what, nine or ten, that she would try and hitch a lift on the wheel, too, as soon as she possibly could. She must already have been thinking out how. But she couldn't have guessed how soon her chance would come.

If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. He was the Fourth to follow the Star. His gift was a secret. The rest of his journey is unknown.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

The idea of the one perfect soul mate—whether it be girl, boy, or flying chipmunk—is right out of an old-fashioned romance novel (okay, maybe not the chipmunk part, unless he's a shape-shifting paranormal chipmunk who turns into a sexy tattooed hunk when the moon is full—yeah, you can tell I'm babbling even in my thoughts).

Recordó los versos que describían a Tristán e Isolda en el bosque: "Hay una espada dispuesta entre los dos, clara, brillante y desnuda".

Quo fata trahunt, retrahuntque sequamur. (Wherever the fates may lead us, let us follow them.)

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

It'll all be one in a thousand years.

yes, I know what you loved, brooding by the shore, your cheek in your still-damp hand, thinking, —Vicente Aleixandre, from "Tragic Destiny," A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2007)

What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?

The important question is not 'Why was I saved?' but 'What will I do with the life that the gods decided to spare?'" I was taken aback by his intensity, especially since he always seemed so calm and unflappable. "You are a Stoic, then," I muttered, remembering Euphronius's lessons.