Quotes About Destiny

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

Jade turned to Malachite, incredulous. "We're going to help them fight off a Fell flight." Malachite didn't take her gaze off the sky. "I am." A growl rose in Jade's throat. She shouldn't have been surprised. The bloodline resemblance between Moon and Malachite was particularly strong, though Moon couldn't see it. And you have five of them back home in the nurseries, she reminded herself.

No such thing as late. Destiny picks its own time.

Chance disappears when you make a decision.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, Fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called "species consciousness" something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities. During this week of incredulous misery, I have been trying to apply such a consciousness, and such a sensibility. Thinking of the victims, the perpetrators, and the near future, I felt species grief, then species shame, then species fear.

By the term short story I mean the recital of a destiny which is represented in a single incident; by anecdote the recital of a single incident which illumines an entire destiny.

The world is not divine sport; it is divine destiny. There is divine meaning in the life of the world; of man, of human persons, of you and of me.

She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Destiny requires you to follow the path you're on. But the path could be altered, if you set your mind to it. For me that meant holding out until the day when King Cnut owed me so much that he would have to award me an estate, land, and honor again.

If someone throws herself off a tall building, it may make sense to employ Newtonian physics in order to explain her immediate prospects. But it is also quite obvious that this explanation fails to address other important questions which we may wish to ask about that person's life and fate.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

Fernando Pessoa ha scritto che dovremmo lavare il nostro destino come laviamo il nostro corpo. Sono d'accordo, ma non ho ancora trovato il sapone giusto.

À long terme, ils montent. - À long terme, je suis mort. (Le cuisinier, p. 147)

Wherefore, O Christian, accept your destiny cheerfully, and form a steadfast resolution to bear unmurmuringly the bitterness of death. For it is a great merit to yield up one's life the life every man loves so well and submit with a ready and willing mind to the pangs of death.

Man geht auf ein Loch zu, weiß, dass man hineinfallen wird, und fällt hinein.

There was an old Irish saying of my nana's – she always said you get the life you deserve. I hope against hope that there was no truth in that. But only time will tell.

Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679

life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence

Life's a big present from God but what you do with it is up to you. You get one crack at it, it's not a dress rehearsal as me mother used to say.