Quotes About Destiny

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

Each thing has come into existence for a specific purpose, like a horse or a grapevine. Even the sun would say: "I exist for a purpose," and also the other gods.18 What, then, is your purpose? To feel pleasure? See if the mind will allow such a thought.

57. To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothing can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

To welcome with affection what is sent by fate.

Consider the whole universe whereof thou art but a very little part, and the whole age of the world together, whereof but a short and very momentary portion is allotted unto thee, and all the fates and destinies together, of which how much is it that comes to thy part and share.

Whatever happens, happens rightly. Watch closely, and you will find this true. In the succession of events there is not mere sequence alone, but an order that is just right, as from the hand of one who dispense to their due.

If there were anything harmful on the other side of death, they would have made sure that the ability to avoid it was within you.

Thus there are two reasons why you must be content with what happens to you: first because it was for you it came to pass, for you it was ordered and to you it was related, a thread of destiny stretching back to the most ancient causes; secondly because that which has come to each individually is a cause of the welfare and the completion in very truth of the actual continuance of that which governs the Whole.

Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and and enfolding of things governed by Providence.

To a stone thrown up in the air, there is no evil in falling or good in rising.

Whatever happens to every man, this is for the interest of the universal:

Reverence: so you'll accept what you're allotted. Nature intended it for you, and you for it.

In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou also be governed by it.

Cada ser nació con algún destino, como el caballo y la vid. ¿Te admiras de esto? También el sol nació destinado para una función, así como los otros dioses. Según ello, ¿para qué fuiste tú creado? ¿Para disfrutar? Reflexiona si puede sustentarse este pensamiento.

Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? In

Things gravitate toward what they were intended for.

I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

We are all mere nuggets of incense on the one altar. Some burn down now , some later - there is no difference .

So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all. The other reason is that what happens to an individual is a cause of well-being in what directs the world—of its well-being, its fulfillment, of its very existence, even.

47. Suppose that a god announced that you were going to die tomorrow "or the day after." Unless you were a complete coward you wouldn't kick up a fuss about which day it was—what difference could it make? Now recognize that the difference between years from now and tomorrow is just as small.

What of it then? You embarked, you set sail, you made port. Go ashore now. It is to another life, nothing is empty of the gods, even on that shore.

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