Quotes About Destiny

No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. You can will what you want, but you can't will what you will

That is why the study of history is so important. History is not destiny; it describes the past but does not decide the future. Yet it is a constant reminder of tragedies...and a warning against repeating them. Human beings can learn from experience. And therein lies hope.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Éste es el secreto de la felicidad: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer.[...] lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social.

Éste es el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: Amar lo que uno tiene que hacer. Todo condicionamiento tiende a esto: a lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social.

He wished to ignore all but here and now, to be as though he had only just entered the world and were destined to be eternal. Bus his memory survived, even though he never deliberately made use of it; and though the things which had been Isabels were destoryed, he could not guard against chance reminders. Chance had found many gaps in his defenses this morning.

the first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?

Bu da, diye veciz bir ifadeyle ekledi Müdür, mutluluk ve erdemin s?rr?d?r- yapmak zorunda olduÄŸun ÅŸeyi sevmek. Tüm ÅŸartland?rmalar?n amac? budur: insanlara, kaç?n?lmaz toplumsal yazg?lar?n? sevdirmek.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being...

Everybody should stick to the insanity that God has seen fit to curse him with.

And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virture-- liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

He thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

El secreto de la felicidad y la virtud consiste en amar lo que hacemos; es decir, el destino social que nos corresponde y del que no podremos ni querremos librarnos.

Tel est le but de tout conditionnement. Faire aimer aux gens la destination sociale à laquelle ils ne peuvent échapper.

el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer. Todo condicionamiento va hacia esto: hacer que la gente ame su inevitable destino social.

Acesta este secretul fericirii È™i al virtuÈ›ii: s?-È›i plac? ceea ce eÈ™ti obligat s? faci. Acesta este È›elul întregii condiÈ›ion?ri: s?-i fac? pe oameni s?-È™i îndr?geasc? destinul social implacabil

Such is life, such the mysterious dispensations of providence. All of us have our little crosses, and every man, as the apostle so justly remarked, shall bear his own burden.