Quotes About Destiny

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us.

Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar.

Hakikati güvenli?e ye? tutan bir ya?am biçimi içinde elde edilen büyük ba?ar? ve bulgunun yazg?s? ?udur: Senin taraf?ndan büyük bir açgözlülükle yalan?p yutulmak ve sonra gene senin taraf?ndan d??k? olarak at?lmak. Büyük hakikati de?il de küçücük yanl??? ya?am?n?n yol göstericisi olarak gördün.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Modul în care un om î?i accept? destinul este mai important decît însu?i destinul s?u.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

luck plays a large role in every story of success;

These were my offerings: success = talent + luck great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck

Seltsam sei es und ungerecht, sagte Gauß, so recht ein Beispiel für die erbärmliche Zufälligkeit der Existenz, dass man in einer bestimmten Zeit geboren und ihr verhaftet sei, ob man wolle oder nicht. Es verschaffe einem einen unziemlichen Vorteil vor der Vergangenheit und mache einen zum Clown der Zukunft.

Nobody, said Humboldt, had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself. But so many things didn't fit in with it, one had to really force oneself.

That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

We insist on steering our boats because we think we have a pretty good idea of where we should go, but the truth is that much of our steering is in vain—not because the boat won't respond, and not because we can't find our destination, but because the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope. Just

A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said "What will you be? What will you do?" I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.

Che ne dici, tu che sei il prodotto di un lungo interrogativo procreatorio: "E' giusto fare dei figli in un mondo come questo? Il Divino Paranoico merita che si accresca la sua opera? Ho io il diritto di mettere in moto un destino? Non so forse che avviare una vita significa metterle la morte alle calcagna? Cosa valgo io come padre e cosa varrà Julie come madre? Possiamo correre il rischio di assomigliarci?

Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place, but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive, while illuminating how tragically absurd life is. So our reasons for reading are as strange as our reasons for living. And no one has the right to call that intimacy into account.

C'est l'affreuse loterie de la vie

In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Yes, one could prepare, one could strive, one could make choices, but ultimately life was an elaborate game of providence and probability.

one could prepare, one could strive, one could make choices, but ultimately life was an elaborate game of providence and probability.

We don't always get to choose our assets, he reminded himself. Sometimes they choose us.