Quotes About Destiny

So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.

If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?

unlike the rest of the free world, I didn't get here by accident.

You could have been Bethany Matthews, Delia Hopkins, Cleopatra - it wouldn't matter. And if you'd grown up with a thousand lemon trees in the middle of the desert, with a cactus instead of a Christmas tree and a pet armadillo, well then, I would have gone to law school at Arizona State, I guess. I would have defended illegal aliens crossing the border. But we still would have wound up together, Dee. No matter what kind of life I had, you'd be at the end of it.

Where is this going to take me? she had asked. And Caleb's answer: Where do you want it to?

whatever does happen the way it's supposed to? You don't plan life, you just do it.

maybe you believe that we fall into our future blindly, drifting from adventure to adventure, our journey zigzagging not according to plan but according to pure chance. Or just maybe, as random and haphazard as our lives seems--maybe that's exactly what the author had in mind.

Every beginning is already the start of the end

Things had a way of working out for the best, when you let them run their course.

When the universe calls, don't place it on hold.

See, unlike the rest of the free world, I didn't get here by accident. And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

No se puede luchar contra la injusticia del destino. Lo único que se puede hacer es sufrirla y esperar un mañana diferente.

of the twenty children here today, ten will be dead in a few years. I don't know which group Kate will be in.

This has always been my favorite fact about bees: in their world, destiny is fluid. You might start life as a worker, and end up a queen.

It worked out the way it should have

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault—that if you'd tried better, or worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance?

I wondered how two boys - like Shay and me - could begin at the same point and somehow take turns that would lead us to be such a different men.

Fortunes were like clay, and could be reshaped at any time.

Chosen protection.

If you don't know where you've come from, how in Heaven's name will you ever figure out where you're going?

Life was a series of ifs—a very different outcome if you'd only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ some stories just don't have a happy ending.

Did you ever wonder who you would have been, if you hadn't become who you are?