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Quotes About Destiny

Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
~ Ernest Becker
I have a rendezvous with life.
~ Countee Cullen
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.
~ Joel Osteen
Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.
~ Eric Berne
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats.
~ Paulo Coelho
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
~ Steve Jobs
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
~ Orlando Bloom
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
~ James A. Baldwin
If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.
~ James MacDonald
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
~ Patti Smith
The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
~ Paulo Coelho
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.
~ Omar Khayyam
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
~ Joseph Campbell
Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
~ Aga Khan III
You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!
~ Bruce Wilkinson
If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.
~ Cassandra Clare
Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game.
~ Jay Electronica
Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.
~ Paulo Coelho
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
~ Philip Larkin
Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.
~ Thomas S. Monson
If it's meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.
~ Jennifer Hudson