Quotes About Destiny

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

Por qué será que lo que colma de felicidad al hombre es al mismo tiempo la fuente de sus desgracias?

God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?

Es que tenía que ser así, que lo que hace la felicidad del hombre sea también la fuente de su desdicha?

Estará escrito en el destino del hombre que sólo puede ser feliz antes de tener razón o después de haberla perdido? ¡Pobre insensato! Envidio tu locura, envidio el laberinto mental en que te pierdes.

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

Life is a rotten lottery.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.