Quotes About Destiny

heads east, from which every tomorrow always comes.

Because we have free will, our tomorrows are never determined until we make them day by day.

that I am in some way chosen for a special role.

Which would not surprise me. But a role in what?

They said that man proposes, God disposes;

We all arrive in this world with a ticket out of it, but somehow, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, we remain convinced that those we care about will be with us for a long ride.

We have a weight to carry and a distance we must go. We have a weight to carry, a destination we can't know. We have a weight to carry and can put it down nowhere. We are the weight we carry from there to here to there. —The Book of Counted Sorrows

Certain events are lightly sketched on the future and can be erased. Others are woven into the fabric of all that is to come and resist being unraveled.

he knew human lives were free of the chains of fate except in one regard: It was the human destiny to be free.

There's nowhere on Earth where people haven't died in sorry ways.

Loneliness is the fate of he who dares to change the world.

in this world of free will, fate is amorphous.

This was, after all, how some of the best things happened in life—by the mysterious working of synchronicity, incredible coincidence.

In the relationship between humanity and dogs, some mutual destiny existed that had not yet been fulfilled.

The Fates are master sharpshooters, and the easy target is the one who's standing still.

On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.

Humans, as attractive and awesomely created as they are, tend to believe that events occur in their lives randomly, with little or no meaning. They often overlook the obvious, that God is in control.

God created us to dream. When we fail to dream, we rob Him of the opportunity to do great things. Sometimes we shy away from dreaming big dreams. Maybe we don't want to ask for too much. Maybe we somehow don't feel worthy. But over and over again in the Bible, the Lord instructs us to envision what He can do. Our job is to dream.

He needs what humans call luck, and we both know there's no such thing as luck, only God

The path you are on is one you chose for yourself

Already you are walking in the heat to get somewhere, but where can you go? There is nowhere but here. This street or that street, it is all the same. One day you will know this, and you will sit down and wait.

Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like yoga or karma, it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture and ended up a celebrity with an extreme makeover.

A Buddhist adage teaches, "If you want to know who you were in your past life, look to your present circumstances. If you want to know who you will be in your future life, look to your present actions.

Life unaffected by the blows of Fortune is a dead sea