Quotes About Destiny

Everything happens for a good reason, and see I am a known actor today. 'Buniyaad' taught me a lot and I am happy.

I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

I believe that if I do good work, something in the universe will fall right for it.

And now you intend to stay here with us in Riva?' asked the burgomaster. 'I do not,' said the hunter with a smile, and to excuse the jest he laid his hand on the burgomaster's knee. 'I am here, more than that I do not know. My boat has no rudder, it is driven by the wind that blows in the nethermost regions of death.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Which road, which road did you take That brought you here at last? No road, no road did I take. I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends, whose management of human destiny only inherited in his allowing the patterns and values established by His will to work themselves out in human affairs. Lincoln's response to his own question is to change his tone and focus.

Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.

It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon.

I can only assume that he must have dreamed it up at the last minute and ad-libbed it—and on just such foolish, tenuous, holy threads as that, I suppose, hang the destinies of us all.

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

The control of events has been taken out of our hands...we have fallen into the mighty current of eternal principles-invisible forces-which are shaping and fashioning events as they wish, using us only as instruments to work out their own results in our national destiny.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

What you seek is close by and rises to meet you.

Denn sie, die uns das himmlische Feuer leihn, Die Götter schenken heiliges Leid uns auch, Drum bleibe dies. Ein Sohn der Erde Schein ich; zu lieben gemacht, zu leiden.

Amor Fati – "Love Your Fate", which is in fact your life.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved