Quotes About Destiny

The Boy Who Lived

Your family history does not have to become your personal destiny. Just

Amor fati. Love your fate. A friend of mine used to say that. The secret of happiness.

have you ever wondered about how, in the original West Side Story, Tony manages to wander randomly onto a street in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, shout, "Maria!" and only one woman answers him?)

most people since the dawn of human time have been simply programmed by their birth to a short and brutish life that is not shaped by them or anyone else.

Your life matters. Your life has purpose. You were put on this earth to capitalize on your strengths and achieve your destiny.

Being in control of your own destiny is a myth—and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it's still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.

There, but for the grace of God, or the accident of birth, or the mystery of fate, go I.

Em condições de desigualdade desenfreada e de mobilidade social estagnada, a repetição da mensagem de que somos responsáveis pelo nosso destino e que merecemos o que recebemos corrói a solidariedade e desmoraliza aqueles que foram deixados para trás pela globalização.

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

through a vision of actual manifested destiny the climax of the very times you are living in, and the beast fed on a number, and the number be 666. The mark of the beast is represented by the beast embossing the number 666 through a tally of gold. "Those who take this debit

The hand that mixes the Georgetown martini," Henry Kissinger observed, "is time and again the hand that guides the destiny of the Western world.

Even those who die in terrorist attacks, and have thus had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, are described as "heroes", though given a choice most of them would no doubt have preferred to be somewhere else when the blow was struck.

But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't escape fate.

It was only a matter of time before we started dying.

Michael McGarrity

Set within the seed of the soul is not jut a fleeting image or a vague pattern but a lifelong story enfolded within, waiting to be cracked open and lived all the way out.

The human soul is a living paradox—neither a predetermined personality nor a completely open possibility. The point in this life is not simply to "become somebody," but to become who we were each intended to be when we first entered this world. For each of us has the most to give and contributes most meaningfully when we become who we were intended to be from the beginning. That is the inside story and the hidden message that has been etched upon each soul.

Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.

The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling; but a fear of responding to the call.

Some might ask whether the path is before us or within us. The answer is: Yes. We are both driven from within by our resident spirit and something outside calls forth the genius within us.

We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.