Quotes About Destiny

Providence takes its cue from men

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.

este es el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer. Todo condicionamiento se dirige a lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be.

And 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.

Todo condicionamiento tiende a esto: a lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social

There are born victims, born to have their throats cut.

No longer anonymous, but named, identified, the procession marched on slowly; on through an opening in the wall, slowly on into the Social Predestination Room.

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." In

He's foredoomed

E é aí - disse sentenciosamente o director, à guisa de contribuição ao que estava a ser dito - que está o segredo da felicidade e da virtude, gostar daquilo que se é obrigado a fazer. Tal é o fim de todo o condicionamento: fazer amar às pessoas o destino social a que não podem escapar.

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.

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

Sí, que me ha dicho, mas ya sabéis que el hombre propone y Dios dispone, verba volant scripta manent.

Bien hacen en despreciarnos, que aún no somos nada —decía Martínez de Ballesteros encogiéndose de hombros—. Pero ya nos llegará la hora.»

Y comprendía, ahora, que el hombre nunca sabe para quién padece y espera. Padece y espera y trabaja para gentes que nunca conocerá, y que a su vez padecerán y esperarán y trabajarán para otros que tampoco serán felices, pues el hombre ansía siempre una felicidad situada más allá de la porción que le es otorgada.

The outcome has already been established in the afterwords — hoc erat in votis! — just as the ash is already in the wood about to kindle.

the world is really so small that everyone must of necessity meet everyone else

Era d'altronde uno di quegli uomini che amano assistere alla propria vita, ritenendo impropria qualsiasi ambizione a viverla. Si sarà notato che essi osservano il loro destino nel modo in cui, i più, sono soliti osservare una giornata di pioggia.

Išla je i znala kuda treba da ide. To je bilo sve. Veli?anstveno ose?anje. Kad se sudbina napokon raskrili i postane razgovetna staza i nedvosmisleni trag i pouzdan pravac. Beskrajno vreme približavanja. TO primicanje. Kad bi moglo trajati ve?no. Pokret predavanja sudbini. To je emocija. Nema više nedoumica, nema više laži. Znati kuda. I sti?i je. Ma kakva bila, ta sudbina.

Poi non è che la vita vada come tu te la immagini. Fa la sua strada. E tu la tua.

Nun, das Leben verläuft nicht so, wie du es dir vorstellst. Es geht seinen Weg. Und du deinen. Und das ist nicht derselbe Weg.

La sconcertante scoperta di quanto sia silenzioso, il destino, quando, d'un tratto, esplode.