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Quotes About Destiny

Sister Katherine smiled. 'Such arrogance. You did not choose God, Maria. He chose you. For you, as his servant, there is no such thing as choice. You must do what is right. You may do no other.
~ Jack Higgins
Valkyrietype
~ Unknown
It all ends in tears anyway.
~ Jack Kerouac
In the womb, every child is interdependent with its mother's body. If either of them is sick, the other is affected. In the same way we are interdependent with the body of the earth. The minerals of the soil make up our wheat and our bones, the storm clouds become our drinks and our blood, the oxygen from the trees and forests is the air we breathe. The more consciously we realize this shared destiny, the more compassion arises for the earth itself.
~ Jack Kornfield
And yet the writer who first brought monotheism to full formulation and who so clearly felt that this idea was destined to sweep the world was, in point of historical fact, quite correct. The spread of this idea, principally through Christianity and Islam, has not been what he foresaw; and in the diffusion of the idea the Jews have been more often vilified than glorified. Yet Christianity and Islam do understand themselves to worship the same being that Israel first worshiped
~ Jack Miles
In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.
~ Jack Weatherford
Control your own Destiny or somebody else will
~ Jack Welch
Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.
~ Jack Zipes
You don't get to do over parts or go back and change your path. Your life is decided by your character and the decisions you make in the moment.
~ Jackie Chan
Some say that connections between people are just a matter of fate, and I'm grateful that I've connected with so many fans in this lifetime.
~ Jackie Chan
Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.
~ Jackie Collins
unaware of the fate around the corner.
~ Jackie French
It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.
~ Jackie Kay
The road that was in your head Has already found you walking: When you looked up ahead, It was your footsteps waiting. - The Imaginary Road
~ Jackie Kay
One day she asked the hare why he had come to her, of all people. 'Some questions,' he replied 'are better left unanswered. A there will come a time wen you will have need of me. Then yo will know.
~ Unknown
One day she asked the hare why he had come to her, of all people. 'Some questions,' he replied 'are better left unanswered. And there will come a time when you will have need of me. Then you will know.
~ Unknown
And, if she dreamed of him first, before ever they met, it did not surprise her, for she knew the power dreams hold.
~ Unknown
Wallace Stegner was a man who lived under the obligation of trying his best to be a "good man," and his writing was part and parcel of that effort. For him, the individual, insofar as his or her capabilities allow, must not only take charge of his or her own destiny, but take on the responsibility of contributing to the welfare of others in family, community and society.
~ Unknown
Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy.
~ Jacob Abbott
Yezonkai's train at this time, there was a certain old astrologer named Sugujin. He was a relative of Yezonkai, and also his principal minister of state. This man, by his skill in astrology, which he applied to the peculiar circumstances of the child, foretold for him at once a wonderful career. He would grow up, the astrologer said, to be a great warrior. He would conquer all
~ Jacob Abbott
We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny.
~ Jacob Bronowski
We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny
~ Jacob Bronowski
All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
~ Jacqueline Carey