Quotes About Destiny

A?k m??" diyordum. "Neymi? bu a?k dedikleri?" "Bilmiyor musunuz ne oldu?unu? Ö?renirsiniz... Siz de bir gün dü?ersiniz a??na.

No one ever asked me if I wanted to play tennis, let alone make it my life. My father decided long before I was born that I would be a professional tennis player.

There is a star up there with your name on it...reach man, reach.

And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces—forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago.

everyone on my team says I'm destined to kick him off the top of that vaunted mountain. I tell them that tennis has nothing to do with destiny. Destiny has better things to do than count ATP points.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I.

I believe that those in the city must be left to work out their own destiny," the hist-techneer said at last. "In a manner of thinking that choice is now a retreat. They wish life to remain as it always has been. But that is just what life never does. It goes up—one advances—or it goes down—one retreats. And if one tried to stand still—that is retreat.

Por que el que ha de venir vendrá. Si no el amor no es más que un vaso de agua apurado rápidamente.

Vorrei sapere se ci incontreremo e quando. Se ci incontreremo troppo tardi o appena in tempo o ci incontreremo ma non riusciremo neanche a capire che eravamo noi e quanto eravamo importanti l'uno per l'altra.

Pensiamo di essere i padroni delle nostre vite, e non è vero. Le uniche cose che possiamo controllare sono marginali, rispetto al resto.

Fai attenzione ai tuoi pensieri, diventano parole. Fai attenzione alle tue parole, diventano azioni. Fai attenzione alle tue azioni, diventano abitudini. Fai attenzione alle tue abitudini, diventano carattere. Fai attenzioni al tuo carattere, diventa il tuo destino.

You see, there is a list, written by the hand of the Almighty in a celestial book, which details the rich and wonderful accomplishments his subjects might achieve here on earth: father of philosophy, composer of the finest music, ace pilot of the skies, paramour to lucky women. Now I knew: beside the name Gilbert Joseph was written just one word -- driver. All endeavours to erase, replace or embellish were useless.

Out west everything has its own space. Every little ramshackle cabin, shack, hut sits perched atop its own little piece of destiny with room to breathe, room to live, room to die. You'll see them, the dead ones, sitting by the side of the road like some faded gray and rotting mystery, thinking about the good ol days before trains and cars and wanting more.

Destiny cannot be thwarted; however you can assist her on your way to success.

You can repudiate DESTINY all you want but in the end it wins.

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

Like the sunrise, some things just have to happen — and all you can really do is watch.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

This will mark the third time that an arrow has entered my chest. The first time brought me to Marianne Engel. The second time separated us. The third time will reunite us.

How deep was the grim sorter of the dark and the foul going to send me?

God's will is not an itinerary but an attitude.

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

You are doomed to a life that will repeat itself again and again, as do all lives—for lives are static things, readings of already written papers—but whereas some men are fortunate to repeat a good pattern, others have the opposite luck—and you can surely see by now that your life is doomed to this same humiliation, endlessly repeated.