Quotes About Destiny

Son, anything can happen to anyone, my father told me, but it usually doesn't.

The profusion of the stars told him unambiguously that he was doomed to die

what his uneducated father had been trying so hard to teach him all along: of the terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

Nothing that befalls anyone is too senseless to have happened.

Anyone with brains understands that he is destined to lead a stupid life because there is no other kind.

The accident of a wrong turn had brought me there, and all I did by getting out of the car and entering the cemetery to find her grave was to bow to its impelling force. My mother and the other dead had been brought here by the impelling force of what was, after all, a more unlikely accident–having once lived

Pensava gli stessi pensieri, inutili per un uomo di non grande talento come lui, se non per Sofocle: la casualità con cui si forma un destino... E come tutto può sembrare accidentale, quando è inevitabile.

What if he was simply ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?

The self that begins the spiritual journey is the self of our own creation, the self we thought ourselves to be. This is the self that dies on the journey. The self that arrives is the self that was loved into existence by Divine Love. This is the person we were destined from eternity to become—the I that is hidden in the "I AM.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

We are not made for life at all, old horse. It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.

No one ever gets out of this life alive.

Who do you think you are?' Asiron asked, with a dry humourless laugh. 'I'll tell you who I am,' answered Parmenion, the words of Tamis echoing in his mind. 'I am Parmenion, the Death of Nations.

It will not go out,' said Keeva, putting her hand on Ustarte's shoulder. 'He is a hero. My uncle told me that heroes have special souls that are blessed by the Source. He was a wise man, my uncle.

You did not kill those children, and you could not have saved them. There is a limit to the power of any single man, even a hero. You were the boy who fought the bear. Now you are the man who killed the king. Yet you are only a man. You are not responsible for the woes of the world or the evil of other men.

A man takes what the gods thrust upon him.

As long as you react, your enemy holds your destiny in the palm of his hand. When you force him to react, you hold his neck in yours.

I'm trying to give you two things here, Douglas: the trip I've always promised you, and the chance you never had before on how you want your life to turn out.

There were guys who prayed at Tarawa,' said Ishmael. 'They still got killed, Mother. Just like the guys who didn't pray. It didn't matter either way.

and Miss Dietrich smiled and nodded at this and said that a girl in search of a husband should squeeze apple seeds between her fingers: if any struck the ceiling, she was sure to be happy in her quest, for apples were the fruit of love.

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves. The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest of us in the endless wash of 'What the hell are we doing here?' In a single day, says an Israeli friend, he experiences events and emotions that would keep a Swede going for a year.

When unprepared people think they're strong enough to resist any intimidation they may face, they're at great risk for abysmal failure. Pride in one's own strength cannot take the place of spiritual preparation. Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment. Jesus warned against failing to count this cost before committing (Luke 14:25-33).