Quotes About Destiny

MULTI SUNT VOCATI, PAUCI VERO ELECTI 'Many are called, but few are chosen

You make your plans, and God laughs at you

Each of us thinks somewhere inside we have a purpose. Long ago we didn't have this existentialist angst; we were hunters or gatherers.

Have this thought deeply imprinted within you: One day when I am ready for it I shall receive what I am to receive.

There are so many dreams to be fulfilled, but Ultima says a man's destiny must unfold itself like a flower, with only the sun and the earth and water making it blossom, and no one else meddling in it

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life.

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

Rudyard Kipling

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

Lie still, little frog. O though Mowgli--for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee--the time will come when thought wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee.

Estaba confuso. Se miró las botas con tristeza, él que siempre había ido descalzo. ¿Quién soy yo?, se preguntó. Yo soy Kimball O'Hara, un blanco, un sahib. No, un sahib, no. Yo soy Kim. Pero, ¿quién es Kim?. Él, Kim, en medio del rugiente torbellino de la India, no era más que un ser insignificante que iba hacia el sur, ignorando lo que el destino iba a depararle.

You are born, you are a he or a she, and you live until you die... Willy-nilly.

Now you gird yourself and take yourself where you want to go … but one day another will gird you and take you where you do not want to go.

And you needn't worry about being useful,' said Dame Ursula. 'When you have become God's in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.' She was quoting St Basil. Then her face grew wistful, '"Unless He prefer, for thy greater advantage, to keep thee all to himself." That does happen to a few people. Yet, paradoxically, they have the greatest influence.

What you seek is seeking you.

Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen.

Pro captu lectoris) habent sua fata libelli. (According to the capabilities of the reader) books have their own destinies. —Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

You are our collaborators, our conspirators, breathing new life into us. And because every reader is unique, each of you makes each of us mean differently, regardless of what's written on our pages. Thus, one book, when read by different readers, becomes different books, becomes an ever-changing array of books that flows through human consciousness like a wave. Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli. According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their own destinies.

According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their own destinies.

But I have always been persuaded that someday, when I grow up, I am destined for great things. And then I wonder when, exactly, I expect that will be.

Ryder Windham

Vede bem, habitantes de Tebas, meus concidadãos! Este é Édipo, decifrador dos enigmas famosos; ele foi um senhor poderoso e por certo o invejastes em seus dias passados de prosperidade invulgar. Em que abismos de imensa desdita ele agora caiu! Sendo assim, até o dia fatal de cerrarmos os olhos não devemos dizer que um mortal foi feliz de verdade antes dele cruzar as fronteiras da vida inconstante sem jamais ter provado o sabor de qualquer sofrimento!