Quotes About Destiny

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

the world as it was could never be more than a fraction of the world, for the real also consisted of what could have happened but didn't, that one road was no better or worse than any other road, but the torment of being alive in a single body was that at any given moment you had to be on one road only, even though you could have been on another, traveling toward an altogether different place.

Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.

He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

En última instancia, una vida no es más que la suma de hechos contingentes, una crónica de intersecciones casuales, de azares, de sucesos fortuitos que no revelan nada más que su propia falta de propósito.

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

nothing was real except chance.

Todos los hombres son huevos, en cierto modo. Existimos, pero aún no hemos alcanzado la forma que es nuestro destino. Somos puro potencial, un ejemplo de lo por venir.

Ya?amlar?m?z bizi al?p denetleyemeyece?imiz biçimde sürükler ve hemen hemen her ?ey de?i?ir. Biz ölünce her ?ey de ölür, ölüm her gün ya?ad???m?z bir ?eydir.

lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies,

Cuanto más cerca estás del final, más tienes que decir. El final es sólo imaginario, un destino que te inventas para seguir andando, pero llega un momento en que adviertes que nunca llegarás allí. Es probable que tengas que detenerte, pero será sólo porque te ha faltado tiempo. Te detienes, pero eso no quiere decir que hayas llegado al fin.

Hector daha ünlü bir y?ld?z olsayd? bu öyküler sürüp giderdi ku?kusuz.Kendisi hakk?nda anlat?lanlarda ya?ar,toplumsal bilincin alt katmanlar?nda yer edinmi? simgesel ki?ilerden birine dönü?ür;gençli?in,umudun ve kaderin ?eytanca oyunlar?n?n temsilcisi haline gelirdi.

Pensi che a te non succederà mai, che non ti può succedere, che sei l'unica persona al mondo in cui queste cose non succederanno mai e poi, a una a una, cominciano a succederti tutte, esattamente come succedono a tutti gli alti

Vingt ans, et déjà je me sentais victime d'un sort contraire.

Tom, il tempo non lo puoi cambiare», diceva June, intendendo che certe cose sono semplicemente quello che sono e non abbiamo altra scelta che accettarle. Tom aveva afferrato il principio, ma questo non gli impediva di maledire le tempeste di neve e i venti gelidi che soffiavano contro il suo piccolo corpo tremante.

This whole city's a Freudian slip of the tongue, a concrete hard-on for America's deeds and misdeeds. Slavery? Manifest Destiny? Laverne & Shirley? Standing by idly while Germany tried to kill every Jew in Europe? Why some of my best friends are the Museum of African Art, the Holocaust Museum, the Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts. And furthermore, I'll have you know, my sister's daughter is married to an orangutan.

Sometimes I wish Darth Vader had been my father. I'd have been better off. I wouldn't have a right hand, but I definitely wouldn't have the burden of being black and constantly having to decide when and if I gave a shit about it. Plus, I'm left-handed.

Man is the sole and absolute master of his own fate forever. What he has sown in the times of his ignorance, he must inevitably reap; when he attains enlightenment, it is for him to sow what he chooses and reap accordingly. – Geraldine Coster

What we were in the past is not important. What we are now is important. What we intend to make of ourselves in the future is vitally important. The unity between our character and our destiny is inseparable; the connection between our way of thinking and the course of events is unerring.