Quotes About Destiny

rejected the life everyone expected of him. "My luck was running out," he said in a 1984 interview for The Paris Review. "I was going to jail, I was going to kill somebody or be killed.

When a black man, whose destiny and identity have always been controlled by others, decides and states that he will control his own destiny and rejects the identity given to him by others, he is talking revolution." That threat to the social order releases fears that further contaminate our politics.

When a black man, whose destiny and identity have always been controlled by others, decides and states that he will control his own destiny and rejects the identity given to him by others, he is talking revolution." That threat to the

Life is a sequence of chain. Hold on to it and you will reach your desire destination.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

I live this life as have the fates decreed.

"Over the MountainsOf the Moon,Down the Valley of the Shadow,Ride, boldly ride,"The shade replied—"If you seek for Eldorado!"

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Go to the good heart that is my husband, Who broods upon what he calls our guilty love: – Tell him that my love for you, no less than my love for him Wrought out my destiny – that through the flesh I won spirit, and through the spirit, peace. There is no marriage in heaven, But there is love.

And then I knew I was one of Life's fools, Whom only death would treat as the equal Of other men

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?

The main trouble with Bill was that along with nine-tenths of the rest of humanity, he had missed his calling.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Destiny knows no favorites.

At breakfast-time, however, destiny's preparations were still not quite complete

He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.

GENNARO Ha da passa' 'a nuttata.»

Ninguno estamos libres de que se abata sobre nosotros la tragedia. Sucede constantemente.

Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory.

Aráoz va pensando, mientras abre la puerta y siente la noche fresca, casi fría, que los pasos que damos al principio de la vida son tan hondos que desde entonces no podemos sino caminar una y otra vez por esas huellas. Y es un pensamiento tan deprimente, y a la vez tan complejo para esa hora de la noche, que le resulta cada vez más evidente que a la vuelta no va a conseguir pegar un ojo.