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Quotes About Destiny

If my self was my dwelling, then my body resembled an orchard that surrounded it. I could either cultivate that orchard to its capacity or leave it for the weeds to run riot in. I was free to choose, but the freedom was not as obvious as it might seem. Many people, indeed, go so far as to refer to the orchards of their dwellings as "destiny.
~ Yukio Mishima
Mes nesusiduriame su savo lemtimi netik?tai. Vyras, kuriam kažkada bus ?vykdyta mirties bausm?, visuomet - pakeliui ? darb? pamat?s elektros stulp?, pereidamas traukinio b?gius - mintyse piešia vietos, kurioje jam bus ?vykdyta mirties bausm? vaizdin?, artimiau su juo susipaž?sta.
~ Yukio Mishima
No hay mayor seguridad que la de no saber hacia qué destino te dirigen tus pasos.
~ Yukio Mishima
We do not collide with our destiny all of a sudden.
~ Yukio Mishima
a peculiar sense of destiny made me believe that the reason why my romantic impulse towards death remained unfulfilled in reality was the immensely simple fact that I lacked the necessary physical qualifications. A powerful, tragic frame and sculpturesque muscles were indispensable in a romantically noble death. Any confrontation between weak, flabby flesh and death seemed to me absurdly inappropriate.
~ Yukio Mishima
I will die soon anyway... I too will cut the adombinal thread of time...but I will cut it with my own hands!
~ Yukiru Sugisaki
You can do whatever you want. Besides the works of the Hikaris…seem to be destined to end up with the Niwas.
~ Yukiru Sugisaki
How we live is all that matters,not who made us,or out of what parts! Free will is what we make of it!
~ Yukito Kishiro
Sarasa, even if you feel that destiny is toying with you, destiny is something you design with your own hands.
~ Yumi Tamura
Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.
~ yutang lin ii
The cold hand of the past emerges from the grave of our ancestors, grips us by the neck and directs our gaze towards a single future. We
~ Yuval Noah Harari
To satisfy both optimists and pessimists, we may conclude by saying that we are on the threshold of both heaven and hell, moving nervously between the gateway of the one and the anteroom of the other. History has still not decided where we will end up, and a string of coincidences might yet send us rolling in either direction.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The universe does not give me meaning. I give meaning to the universe. This is my cosmic vocation. I have no fixed destiny or dharma. If I find myself in Simba's or Arjuna's shoes, I can choose to fight for the crown of a kingdom, but I don't have to. I can just as well join a wandering circus, go to Broadway to sing in a musical, or move to Silicon Valley and launch a start-up. I am free to create my own dharma.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
For men of science, death is not an inevitable destiny, but merely a technical problem.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Esta es la mejor razón para aprender historia: no para predecir el futuro, sino para desprendernos del pasado e imaginar destinos alternativos. Desde luego, esto no supone la libertad total: no podemos evitar estar moldeados por el pasado. Pero algo de libertad es mejor que ninguna.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
La repetición eterna confiere poder al relato, pues implica que este es el devenir natural de las cosas, y que si Arjuna evita el combate o si Simba rehúsa convertirse en rey, estarán rebelándose contra las leyes mismas de la naturaleza.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
This cosmic data-processing system would be like God. It will be everywhere and will control everything, and humans are destined to merge into it.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
History has still not decided where we will end up, and a string of coincidences might yet send us rolling in either direction.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.
~ Yvette Christiansë
Niciodat? omul nu trebuie s?-?i dea moartea, nici m?car s? ?i-o cheme. Omul are moartea în m?duva oaselor, din clipa în care s-a pl?m?dit... Vezi tu, Darie, în via?? po?i s? chemi, dac? e?ti nezdrav?n la minte, ?i moartea. Moartea ori o chemi, ori n-o chemi, tot vine când î?i este dat s? vin? ?i... te ia...
~ Zaharia Stancu
One day, someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.
~ Zane
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Never say never, cause 'never' is like when the hero dies at the end of a movie.
~ Zen diab
If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.
~ Zenna Henderson