Quotes About Destiny

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

But second chances aren't forever Even miracles have an expiration date.

We're two sides of the same tragic coin. It's like we were tied together before we even met.

Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.

Às vezes acho que uma tragédia vive à espreita de todo mundo; por isso, as pessoas que vão comprar leite na esquina ou que cutucam o nariz enquanto aguardam o sinal abrir estão a apenas alguns minutos de um desastre. Na vida de todos, não importa quão comum seja, existe um momento que se tornará extraordinário — um único embate após o qual tudo o que realmente é importante vai acontecer.

You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It's only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely." -Lane-

But second chances aren't forever. And even miracles have an expiration date.

It's so strange how the moment of your birth is this fixed point in time, but the hour of your death is always changing based on what you eat for dinner, or where you cross the street, or who you trust when you're alone in the dark woods. But I like to think of all those little moments that add up to the final one, because it meant that my death would be my own, the result of my life, and not just something that happened to me.

the life you plan isn't the life that happens to you.

We're so good together, and it's a tragedy in its own right to throw that away because of something neither of us did. Because the way I figure it, everyone gets a tragedy. And all things considered, I'm glad that car accident was mine. Otherwise I wouldn't be applying to East Coast colleges, or on the debate team, or any of those things, because I wouldn't have met you.

I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst- the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere- it's what comes after that determines the result.

There's this poem," Cassidy finally said, "by Mary Oliver. And I used to write a line from it in all of my school notebooks to remind myself that I didn't have to be embarrassed of the past and afraid of the future. And it helped. So I'm giving it to you. The line is, 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do/With your one wild and precious life?

we're two sides of the same tragic coin, its like we were tied together before we even met

You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed.

That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary—a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

There's this poem," Cassidy finally said, "by Mary Oliver. And I used to write a line from it in all of my school notebooks to remind myself that I didn't have to be embarrassed of the past and afraid of the future. And it helped. So I'm giving it to you. The line is, 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do/With your one wild and precious life?'" We

The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born; The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home; The Dark Tower: Treachery; The Dark Tower: The Sorcerer (one-shot comic, not collected); The Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead; The Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill and The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger – The Journey Begins.

La vida es como un juego de cartas. La mano que se te reparte es el determinismo; la forma en que juegas es el libre albedrío." Jawaharlal Nehru

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

as witness the story of Oedipus, hounded by the gods for marrying his mother, even in ignorance.

Asino tu nascesti, ad asino morrai. [An ass you were born; an ass you will die.]

El destino es siempre desmedido: castiga un instante de distracción, el azar de tomar a la izquierda y no a la derecha, a veces con la muerte. BORGES citado por Bioy

Sans doute, nos vacances sont perdues, mais l'avenir est intact.

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.