Quotes About Destiny

Perhaps that was the genuine siren's song of legend, the temptation to jettison the ballast of the past and rush weightless and unencumbered down a dark tunnel of rebirth. Perhaps that was the soul's destiny regardless.

Life is not random. There are no coincidences. Human beings are more than mere molecules bouncing around life without reason. We bounce around life with a purpose. We are meant to bounce off specific other human beings during our lives, other human beings who will change the content and course of our lives. We are meant to be exactly who we are.

Life is not random. There are no coincidences. Human beings are more than mere molecules bouncing around life without reason. We bounce around life with a purpose. We are meant to bounce off specific other human beings during our lives, other human beings who will change the content and course of our lives.

God hasn't called us to something in a year. We're called for the here and now. We were not made to survive today for some potential future endeavor, something that maybe he'll do through us one day.

If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.

Your genes are not your destiny. They load the gun, but your environment pulls the trigger.

It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968

We're so far from having any control over what happens to us, it's not even funny. Well, that's not true, actually. It is funny.

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.

there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

It felt like one of those perfect moments where everything comes together. But like I said, I don't believe in accidents. Even if this strange, musical moment, the final result of a long chain of unlikely events, never came to anything else, it was meant to be. Something new had been born.

Every bestselling author was once completely unknown. A good book will eventually find its place in the world.

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don't. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels—the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

Nations, empires and movements boom or collapse according to greater forces than the personal traits of their leaders.

Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end

Isn't it strange how life is always taking you to places and to people you're supposed to see and meet?

We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person we will lose.

God wants you to fight in a different way, and for a greater good, or he would not have put you where you are.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.