Quotes About Destiny

Mia's mother, Nonna Celia, is to blame for that, because she's a prophet of doom. Every time I'd ask her if we could go someplace the next day or next week, her reply would be, "We might not live that long." If I'd say, "See you tomorrow," her answer would be, "If that's what God wants." Leaving so much to fate has kept me an insomniac for most of my life...

But of course the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another

We do not consider the kingdom damned," Lord August said politely. "We prefer not to use that word." "What would you call it, Lord August?" Finnikin asked. "A little magic? A slight curse? A bit of bad luck?

No ha sido capaz esa mirada tuya de evitar que te ocurriera algo malo?

The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.

For the record, Ruth, I would have welcomed any path my life took, so long as it was with you.

maybe they aren't mistakes at all. Maybe it's just that the path to the place you're supposed to be is longer?

Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince?

You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan

I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.

Some mortals--like you--are already half in love with death. It is who you are, and I'll not make it harder on you by telling you things you don't need to know. Ask me again when you die. Then I'll tell you everything, anything, nothing.

You know its more than that. I know now that it was right that I didn't find my queen all these years. Waiting for you was worth everything that I thought I couldn't endure.

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don't know why you and not someone else.

This world is yours.

This was it. She felt it in her soul as if someone were whispering over her shoulder that after years of waiting, the Fae were about to disclose to her the purpose and the place they intended for her. A purpose and a place where she belonged, because she knew for a fact she didn't belong here.

Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home.

the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.

If, even in such a time of grace, a Jew is not moved to the tears of repentance, there is an imperfection in his soul. Nothing wakes it to return to its source. It has moved far indeed from its destiny.

Whom the gods love dies young.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.