Quotes About Destiny

When a man believes that deciding the fate of others  will grant him control of his own life, he has left the path of reason.

I would set my course that instant not for the nearest but the farthest star.

We can't change the past but we can make any future that we want.

It's like you tune in to a supernatural event, and anyone who is destined to interact with that event picks up the same psychic signature. You tune in to radio-station freaky and write what you hear.

The circularity of karma is explicitly set from the time of creation: You must be what you are; you cannot change your qualities.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.' Marcus Aurelius

Our talents do not entirely belong to us, nor do we choose them; they find us. - Lincoln Kirstein to Jerome Robbins

And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and allotted each soul to a star. And mounting them on their stars, as if on chariots, he showed them the nature of the universe and told them the laws of their destiny. - "Timaeus" by Plato 427-347 B.C.

Wherever you end up, I wish you clear skies. Always.

Is that what we're doing?" I whisper as he slides in next to me. "Saving the world or saving ourselves?" "Maybe it's the same thing," he whispers back

Madame Merle says, "I don't pretend to know what people are meant for. . . . I only know what I can do with them.

You will be so happy you didn't get pregnant. Because this child will fill your life so full of love that you will thank God every day that somehow it was just meant to be. She was meant to be yours.

There's a season and there's a reason

Je deviendrai le roi d'Haïti un jour parce que les dieux m'ont déjà choisi et que je dirigerai le pays dans la bonne direction.

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?

The world-view of the poets centred in their experience of human destiny itself and of the way in which it could be overcome through that spirit of heroism in the midst of tragedy which had grown to maturity in the hard struggles of a century filled with inward upheaval and threatened with constant danger from without.

And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there [space]. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

God did not create the past, present and future, this moment is up to you to decide whether it will be fleeting or unforgettable."

Life is a movie and God is waiting for someone to do something different from the script."

No road takes you to your dreams, it just shows the direction, but you decide to go or stay where you are.

Talent attracts opportunity.

The future is immortal.

Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do.

I don't know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I've traveled to get here is like those interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you're not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you're going and realize that you've been traveling for a long time.