Quotes About Destiny

And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.

What good is the present if you cannot change the future?

... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

How do you change the inevitable? The act of trying to change it could actually cause it to happen.

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be