Quotes About Destiny

Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes.

You can't choose where you are born, you can't decide who won't leave you, you can't choose much. A life has unchangeable tides the same as history does. But there is still room inside it for choice. For decisions.

What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees? What if there is no end to the choices you could make? What would Robert Frost do then?

It is hard to predict, isn't it?' she asked, looking blankly in front of her as she moved a black bishop across the board to take a white pawn. 'The things that will make us happy'.

Camus also said, 'If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there'?

Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.

She understands enough of what is going on. She understands that he wants to save her, more than anything in the world. She understands what he understands, that if only he could save her, he could save himself. She understands also that she loves him, and as she stays inside his helpless stare, she knows that fate is something she has to steer herself.

in the cosmic order of things. There is no rejection, there is only redirection.

You simply can't fall in love and not think there is something bigger ruling us. Something, you know, not quite us. Something that lives inside us, caged in us, ready to help us or fuck us over. We are mysteries to ourselves. Even science knows that.

Being aware that everything that could possibly happen happened to her somewhere, in some life, kind of absolved her a little from decisions.

That means there are still as many possible lives out there for you as there ever were. An infinite number, in fact. You can never run out of possibilities.' 'But

I think it is easy to imagine there are easier paths,' she said, realising something for the first time. 'But maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths. In one life, I might be married. In another, I might be working in a shop. I might have said yes to this cute guy who asked me out for a coffee. In another I might be researching

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations. The books are portals to all the lives you could be living.

Because I am clearly destined to be unhappy in other lives too. That is just me. I add nothing. I am wallowing in self-pity. I want to die.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – / I took the one less travelled by, / And that has made all the difference . . .' 'What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees? What if there is no end to the choices you could make? What would Robert Frost do then?

Is there a life where we are still together?

Tragedia e doar comedia care nu a ajuns la indeplinire. Intr-o buna zi vom rade de asta. Vom rade de tot.

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations. These books are portals to all the lives you could be living.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts . . .

She gestured vaguely along the aisle, towards the distance. "Death is outside." "Well, I should go there. Because I want to die." Nora began walking. But Mrs Elm shook her head. "That isn't how death works." "Why not?" "You don't go to death. Death comes to you.

She had come to imagine mediocrity and disappointment were her destiny.

It was a planet full of tests and meta-tests. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.

It's hard to predict, isn't it?' she asked, looking blankly in front of her as she moved a black bishop across the board to take a white pawn. 'The things that will make us happy.

I think it is easy to imagine there are easier paths,' she said, realising something for the first time. 'But maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths.