Quotes About Destiny

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

I think I was about seven when people started telling my parents I would be an actor or a performer of some kind.

All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

It just clicks when you meet the right person.

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

Nobody can be lucky all the time, so when your luck deserts you in some fashion don't think you've been abandoned in your prime, but rather that you're saving up your ration.

As thou hast sown, so shall thou reap.

As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap.

It is not possible with mortal mind to search out the purposes of the gods.

Forse il destino della penisola si può racchiudere nel suo stesso nome: Yucatán deriva dalle parole maya ciu-tan , e significa "noi non vi capiamo". Era la frase più sentita dagli spagnoli, che anche qui erano venuti in cerca di oro senza trovarne nemmeno un'oncia, e alla loro reazione violenta gli indios avevano solo il tempo di dire "non riusciamo a comprendervi".

Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.

Life is about your destiny.

Your character builds your future

Your destiny can't be taken away no matter what happens.

Your destiny will always remain your destiny.

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate My sole mate 'tis my soul mate.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

This vexed Theseus, and determining not to hold aloof, but to share the fortunes of the people, he came forward and offered himself without being drawn by lot. The people all admired his courage and patriotism, and Aegeus finding that his prayers and entreaties had no effect on his unalterable resolution, proceeded to choose the rest by lot.

I asked him if Buddhists believe we all get a specific destiny. "We don't think there's a specific place in your life to go. Everybody's destiny is to become an enlightened being and reach the everlasting state of mind.

We have mixed feelings about the seductive notion of destiny. There's a persistent tension between wanting our life's purpose to be revealed to us by some higher power and wanting to scrap and fight for it against all odds—to earn it without help. We think about destiny sort of like how we feel about inheritance—we covet its fruit but it's sweeter if we earned it ourselves.

Another way to characterize it is that our chances of finding a habitable planet are roughly equal to the chances that Christopher Columbus, sailing east, would accidentally discover the Americas. It's not a question of if. It's only a question of when.