Quotes About Destiny

But we cannot always choose whose lives will become entangled with our own; these things happen to us, come to us uninvited, and Mma Ramotswe understood that well.

we live out our years as best we can, not knowing their number, not really knowing, in the case of most of us, why we do what we do and how we came to be where we are; thinking we know it, but suspecting that we do not really know.

It was pure privilege that determined where so many of us ended up in life, Isabel reflected; it was nothing to do with merit, it was privilege. Or, putting it another way, it was a matter of accident, or luck.

There are roads to Damascus, she told herself. People travel on them.

There were people like that, he thought; people for whom one wanted only happiness because that is what they deserved, but who were destined to be denied it because the gods, and the world, were unfair. The queue for happiness was not well ordered, he thought; it stretched out and wound round corners, and sometimes, it seemed, the end was so hard to see.

Perhaps they could get married in heaven, if he left it too late. That would certainly be cheaper.

The way to leave this life, I always say: some sudden, cataclysmic disaster and whoosh, you're propelled into the next world—or oblivion. One might take one's pick.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free

Follow me. He who lives will see. - D'Artagnan

A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.

A man is always endowed by Heaven with too much for his own happiness, and just enough to make him miserable.

Vivete, dunque, e siate felici, figli adorati del mio cuore, e non dimenticate mai che, sino al giorno in cui Dio si degnerà di svelare all'uomo l'avvenire, l'intera saggezza umana risiederà in queste due parole: Attendere e sperare! Il vostro amico Edmond Dantès Conte di Montecristo

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

You see, sister, little Miss Scarlett has no idea who she is. Her chraming tricks attract men who are unworthy of her. "Rhett's voice dropped to a whisper. "Hindoos believe we have had lives before this. Is it true? He raised a mocking eyebrow. Perhaps Scarlett and I were star-crossed lovers; perhaps we died in each other's arms...

Do you believe your gentle birth will turn a bullet?" "Why, yes," Rhett said solemnly. "Hell yes! Gentle birth's got to be good for something!

Ya Abdul," Aziz said quietly, "for each of us in this universe of tears, Allah places a special treasure. Some people never find theirs, and go to the Day of Decision unfulfilled. I've found my treasure, and I knew it right away. You don't let it get away. Allah has placed yours right under your nose. But your neck is too stiff to bend.

Everything in life is luck.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.