Quotes About Destiny

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.' 'God made you that, Aline.

Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be together forever.

Self discipline and respect come naturally when you truly believe that your life has a spiritual dimension and that you are carefully designed to fulfill a destiny. Never leave a friend behind....they are all we have to get us through this life....and are the only thing we hope to see in the next...

The world is hat we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

We spend nine months in a nurturing darkness before we're born, and we aspire to the highest of all places when we die.

And so we went to the Panamint, where Death had gone to gamble and had, as always, won.

We are destined to be together forever. We have a card that says so. Gypsy Mummy is never wrong.

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

If coincidence can give, it can take.

He said that the penny would not bring us luck, that even if it had been a million dollars, it would not of itself bring us luck and change our lives, that what happened to us was of our election—and therefore allowed us more hope than luck could ever provide.

Will I see you again?' I asked. 'Of course you will dear, you'll see everyone again;

I have no choice but to believe that all our lives are woven through with grace, because only then could the promise made to me and Stormy come true.

your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

Each life is a spool of thread that unravels through the years, and it is by a thread that we are so perilously suspended.

From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be.

Nevertheless, I gave Gypsy Mummy a quarter, and she presented to us the message that Johnny and his fiancée had hoped to receive: YOU ARE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

In this beautiful but hard world, fate spared no species.

I didn't tell her that death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.