Quotes About Destiny

But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.

He is not my lover. He is far more than that to me, far more precious. I am the White Prophet and he is my Catalyst, and we are come here to change the course of time. I am here to see that Icefyre lives.

Fault has no place in the greater scheme of things, little one. Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.

I had learned, yet again, that I could not serve the Farseers and still claim a life for myself. Not this again, Changer. How could the moments of your life belong to anyone but you? You are the Farseers, blood and pack. See the whole of it. It is neither a binding nor a separation. The pack is the whole of you. The wolf's life is in the pack.

The future cannot take from us the days we have left…unless we let it. p. 46 The Fool to Fitz

Ah, Fitz, Fitz, we are who we are and who we ever must be.

The path will find you," he assured me, and smiled. "In darkness it cannot hide itself." p. 467 Prilkop to Fitz

like a bright chip of glass, fallen from a gorgeous mosaic of Elderlings and turreted cities and dragons on the wing, to lie in the dirt, broken away from all she that had once been her destiny

You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught.

We are here, Fitz, you and I, to change the future of the world. To reach out and hold in place the tiny pebble that could trigger the boulder's tumbling.

luck belongs to children and madmen.

For I had already dreamed your face and I knew I must find you, even though everyone had assured me that you did not and could not exist.

The white prophet Gerda was barely twenty when she set out into the world to find her Catalyst. She had dreamed of her often since she was an infant. She travelled far from the peaceful green lands of her birth, going both by sea and by land, to a village far in the mountains where a peak smoked in the distance and glowed red at night

No one truly understands a prophecy until it comes true.

that life was an immense wheel, turning in a set track and that his task was to bump the wheel out of that track and set it on a better one?

Probeer dit rijk te regeren, en het zal je tot slaaf maken,' fluisterde een geest van de Wilde Regenlanden in mijn oor. 'Word er deel van, en je gaat een nieuw leven tegemoet.

She thinks you will succeed. But whether you will know you have succeeded, or if the success will be the one you would have chosen for yourself, well, those are things no one can say now. But she knows you will succeed at whatever you are meant to do." p.613: Paragon to Brashen (about Mother)

Demain vous doit la somme de vos jours passés.

Jsme tady, Fitzi, ty a já, abychom zmÄ›nili budoucnost svÄ›ta. Abychom hmátli a podrželi na místÄ› ten malinký oblázek, který by mohl uvolnit padající balvany.

For some things, there is no forgiving or unforgiving. They are simply a crossroads, and a direction taken, whether I would or no. Someone else set my feet on that path. All I can control is every step I take after that.

You earn your future, Malta Vestrit.' The bead-maker cocked her head at her. 'What does tomorrow owe you?' 'Tomorrow owes me?' Malta repeated in confusion. 'Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that.' Amber looked out to sea again. 'And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely.

Perhaps the only thing about him that had been remarkable was that he had been given a chance.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that." Amber looked out to sea again. "And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely.

He shook his head, slowly this time. "History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along." He smiled enigmatically. "The future is another kind of history.