Quotes About Destiny

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you, But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.—Nathalia Crane

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends.

And at year's end they broke the stable door. The man and his horse, together, gallop yet, Beyond the sunset's end, the pounding hooves, Both harmony and beat for their duet.

She wasn't famous then," Pat said. "Nobody is. You never know until too late. They're just people like everyone else. Anyone you know might become famous. Or not. You don't know which ones will make a difference or if any of them will. You might become famous yourself. You might change the world.

Prophecy is only sometimes helpful.

Not even Necessity knows all ends.

Tu, Tatarana, Riobaldo: agora é a má hora!" — era o Hermógenes prevenindo.

Ao que, digo ao senhor, pergunto! em sua vida é assim? Na minha, agora é que vejo, as coisas importantes, todas, em caso curto de acaso foi que se conseguiram ? pelo pulo fino de sem ver se dar ? a sorte momenteira, por cabelo por um fio, um clim de clina de cavalo. Ah, e se não fosse, cada acaso, não tivesse sido, qual é então que teria sido o meu destino seguinte? Coisa vã, que não conforma respostas. As vezes essa ideia me põe susto.

Melhor que era para logo, para o seguinte: dois camaradas do dito fazendeiro estavam ali no Curralim, esperando decisão, agora me levavam.

If you think well, you'll see that nothing is by chance, but common sense, which is a way to bind conscience and shackle freedom, denies that and prefers to go on believing in old, worn-out truths.

When the Whispering Mountain shall scream aloud And the castle of Malyn ride on a cloud, Then Malyn's lord shall have and hold The lost that is found, the harp of gold. Then Fig-hat Ben shall wear a shroud, Then shall the despoiler, that was so proud, Plunge headlong down from Devil's Leap; Then shall the Children from darkness creep, And the men of the glen avoid disaster, And the Harp of Teirtu find her master.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now

How can rape, murder, war, and illness be loving acts? [...] all events happen for the greater good, that nothing is accidental or without the capacity to spur our evolution as loving co-creators with God.

Ezer világon és tízezer életen át is kereslek majd, amíg meg nem talállak. - Én pedig várok majd rá, minden világban és minden életben...

Aztán valahol a végtele kékségben két lélek útjai keresztezik egymást... Å' pedig úgy veszi majd észre egy idegen szemében a saját szíve tükörképét, mint búvár a tenger árnyai közt a gyöngyöt... és akkor tudni fogja, hogy végre az Å' lelke is hazatalált.

They said it was death to kill a sibyl, death to love a sibyl, death to be a sibyl … and they meant a living death.

So the papyrus fortunes

two back doors close to each

Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.