Quotes About Destiny

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

People who cannot find their way out of history are lost, and so are their nations.

Det var slutet för den unge, så gick Kullervo ur tiden, denne olycksfödde yngling, för att aldrig återkomma. /.../ Eftervärld, låt aldrig barnet uppfostras av onda viljor, vyssjas av förvända mänskor, vaggas fel av obekanta. Den som en gång fostrats galet, vyssjas bakvänt, vaggas illa, han blir aldrig som han borde,

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

No doubt, God took a risk with creation by granting it consciousness and free decision.

I'm going to become whatever I was going to become.

as for unhappy families, star-crossed lovers, and exiled heroes, they are simply universal.

I had often flipped through a calendar wondering on which of the 366 days (counting February 29) I would die, but it had never once occurred to me to wonder whether I had already met the first person I would have sex with.

Nobody ever said we were put on this earth for our own entertainment

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.

As surely as God sent us to earth, He has given us a return ticket.

It is difficult to reconcile oneself to the view that a single life determines our lot. We seem to come toward the end of our life just when we begin to get some insight.

But, in a sense, nothing in life is planned—or everything is—because in the dance every step is ultimately the corollary of the step before; the consequence of being the kind of person one chances to be.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

For so long, Lebanon had wrestled with the rudimentary questions of identity: whether its inhabitants were Arabs first or Lebanese above all, whether they belonged to East or West, whether they were bound to a destiny that stretched far beyond its borders—the Muslim world, for instance—or were part of a legacy as particular as the history of ancient Phoenicia.

The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

The sea journey back was not without event. She was distraught, her nerves at a breaking point. She may have looked from the deck of the ship at those surging waves below. Maybe even for a moment have wished herself in their midst. Perhaps for once she danced Ondine in her troubled mind. It happily was not be. Tragic and banal as would have been that end to her story, Fate denied it as her destiny.

This time the Empress was supposed to have asked the celebrated healer and pretender to miraculous powers, John Joseph Gassner: "Will my daughter be happy?" His reply was suitably gnomic: "There are crosses for all shoulders." 3

You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.

Das Leben war eine Ansammlung von Fluren, die man entlangging, ohne zu wissen, was für Räume an ihrem Ende lagen.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.

What wisdom and what virtue there is in judging oneself truly and in remaining oneself! You have a part that only you can play; and your business is to play it to perfection, instead of trying to force fortune. Our lives are not interchangeable. Equally by aiming too high and by falling too low, one misses the path to the goal. Go straight ahead, in your own way, with God for guide.