Quotes About Destiny

If I could give the young people ... but one word of advice, it would be this - 'Believe in yourself with all your might'. That is, believe that your destiny is inside you, that there is a power within you which if awakened, aroused, developed and matched with honest effort, will not only make a noble man or woman of you, but will also make you successful and happy.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.

In pictures like these there are always empty shoes. It's the shoes that get to me. Sad, that innocent daily task - putting your shoes on your feet, in the firm belief that you'll be going somewhere.

For the heart was both key and lock, and he who could master the hearts of men and learn their secrets was well on the way to mastering the Fates and controlling the thread of his own destiny.

He'll find out somehow, because journeys end in lovers meeting.

The Wheel of Fortune rotates, fickle as the moon. Soon those who were down will move upwards. And vice versa, of course

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans, as used to be said; though in present day, the idea of God laughing is next door to blasphemy. An ultra-serious fellow, God is now.

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to." ? Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Is this really your fate, to enter poetry and become transparent?

But all would come out fine in the end, she added, because the gods were just. I refrained from saying I'd seen scant evidence of that so far.

We cannot unweave, and remake. For chance and choice happen. They coincide, they coalesce, they mix, and then their joint outcome grows as hard and as fixed as cement. Like a fossil in stone, it hardens, in its own indissoluble, immutable shape.

It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.

But everyone's life always came down to choices.

I embrace Fate like a lover. All my life, Fate has wished to be my lover and tried to govern me. Now I turn to submit to his embraces.

When we are ready, the gods send what we need.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

La vita di Elena non era facile né felice, ma lei non si era aspettata che fosse facile e, quanto alla felicità, quello era il destino della donna. Il mondo era degli uomini, e lei lo accettava. L'uomo era lodato per l'ordine della sua proprietà e la donna lodava la sua abilità. L'uomo muggiva come un toro se una scheggia gli si conficcava in un dito e la donna soffocava i gemiti quando metteva al mondo un figlio, per timore di disturbarlo.

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.

Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.'Heath nodded slowly. 'But usually only once, Hamish. Usually only once.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.