Quotes About Destiny

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

because everything is connected to everything else, and the more we know about who and where we come from, the more we know about where we're headed.

The Japanese have a word for what gets you out of bed in the morning: they call it your ikigai. Your ikigai is that sense you have when you wake up that this day matters, that there are new experiences to be had, that you have work to do, a contribution to make. Sometimes this is referred to as your calling, other times your vocation, your destiny, your path. Your ikigai is your reason for being.

Our eschatology shapes our ethics. Eschatology is about last things. Ethics are about how you live. What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

He told them a story—"the little baby in the cradle," as a student would call it. "He would tell us that one day we might say the baby would be a teacher. Maybe the next day we'd say the baby would be a doctor. And one day we might say the baby—any baby—might grow up to be President of the United States.

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?

Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.

The universe will let us know—later—whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it. In

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.

Ironia suprem? a vie?ii este c? nimeni nu scap? de ea cu via??

I told her that no born leader seeks command; the mantle descends on him, he wears the burden because he must.

We are passing through Chaos but we will not end in Chaos. We still have a starry destiny ahead of us

We're fifteen," he said. "And we found each other already? Is that possible? Can you find somebody at fifteen?

Looking back, looking back and trying to figure what made you that way, several things stand out in your mind. There may have been more than several. Maybe there were a hundred. Maybe a thousand. Small events, little episodes, all pointing you in the same direction, so that you might think you had free will when you wobbled from side to side on the track, but there were no switches for you to throw, no turnings to choose.

Twelve years had passed, and now he'd come full circle. The whole business had started here, and here it must end. That was simple justice.

There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture! In a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew. 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.

O poder do Homem deve exceder o seu alcance. Senão, para que serviria o céu?

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (To A Mouse)

On the abyss's edge we slide and soon will plunge head first; our life is given us with our death – and we, when we are born, begin to die. Without an ounce of pity, death strikes all things, brings to nothing stars, and suns are quenched by her cold breath – destroyer of the universe.

Geography does not determine individual character, but it does matter.

America is fated to lead. That is the judgment of geography as it has played out over the past two and a half centuries.