Quotes About Destiny

Tell me, how is it that Courtney Hall can have all her life mapped out for her from beginning to end for the maximum personal happiness and satisfaction and still be neither happy nor satisfied?

Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.

was eligible for a Level II yard, and they had to find a suitable place for me. Corcoran was the place that God intended for me, the place where I could fully embrace and manifest the change I needed to make.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism? Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

Las personas de este mundo tienen un destino fijado. Pero quien está desarrollado espiritualmente recibe lo que 'no' está en su destino.

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.

Desafortunado Considérate desafortunado únicamente si comienzas a fabricar ataúdes y la gente deja de morir.

Nunca llegarás a la Meca, porque te encuentras en el camino a Samarcanda.

Has recorrido un largo camino, y no lo sabes. Tienes un largo camino por recorrer, y sí sabes lo que eso significa.

Por cada Faraón hay un Moisés.

Han fijado nuestra nutrición y dispuesto la duración de nuestras vidas. Más que esto,y más allá de esto,los esfuerzos no serán productivos.

La gente del mundo tiene un destino prefijado. Pero quien está desarrollado espiritualmente recibe lo que 'no' está en su destino.

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is "not" in their destiny.

A pesar de lo rápido que corras, o lo hábil que seas, no podrás huir de tus propios pies

Call yourself unlucky only if you take up coffin-making and people stop dying.

Has recorrido un largo camino, y no lo sabes. Tienes un largo camino por recorrer, y sabes lo que eso significa.

The purpose of Sufism is not to be what people imagine it should be –but to help in the attainment of the real destiny of man.

El propósito del Sufismo no es ser lo que la gente imagina que debería ser, sino ayudar en la consecución del verdadero destino del hombre.

Sufi says: 'The moth, if it could think, might well believe that the candle flame is desirable because it seems to represent perfection. The flame is the product of the wax, the wick and the spark which kindles. Is the human moth seeking the flame or the spark itself? Observe the moth. His destiny, to be destroyed by the flame, is visible to you and hidden to him' (Tongue of the Dumb, quoting Paiseem).