Quotes About Destiny

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.

All painful events have a purpose, and mine has made my life what it is today.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Most people seem to think I am something of a character and the things that have befallen me are par for my course.

The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.

I played baseball in high school, and in some parallel universe, if I had not gone into filmmaking, I may have been the coach cursing at the kids.

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.

I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

One thing I'm sure of is that it's not easy to find your lifetime partner.

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Sometimes it doesn't feel like I'm in control but that I'm going along for the ride. And I'm a lousy passenger; I love to drive.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

I've always believed there is a better place somewhere. I feel like I'm E.T. and I'm just passing through.

Activity becomes process. Choices become destiny. Men then live in the world they themselves have made as if they were fated to do so by powers that are quite independent of their own world-constructing enterprises.

But if men and women were not at the mercy of impersonal deities and random chance, they could no longer remain passive in the face of an unknown future. They had no choice but to begin making decisions over a far wider range of circumstances and over far longer periods of time than ever before.

And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

There, but for the grace of God, go you and I.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

There is something sweetly inexplicable that passes between two people who are destined to meet when one day, after wandering often aimlessly through life, searching without ever knowing for exactly what, the heavens finally fall into alignment and they happen upon one another unexpectedly, as if by magic.

each has the oddest notion that they have already met and indeed known each other since long ago. It is more a feeling of profound recognition, almost surprise, than anything else, one that brings with it a sense of relief, as if their hearts are simply saying to one another, "Oh, there you are. Where have you been? I've been looking all over for you for the longest time.