Quotes About Destiny

But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

We all live, but we don't know the why or the wherefore. We all live with the object of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I've drawn myself apart from them all; I am my own skipper and later on I shall see where I come to land

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Adónde habría llegado la maravillosa niña que, sin saberlo, ha escrito esta especie de obra maestra?

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

And if minor characters show an inclination to become major characters … you at least give them a shot at it, because … just as in the real world it may take you many years to find out that the stranger you talked to once for half an hour in the railroad station may have done more to point you to where your true homeland lies than your priest or your best friend or even your psychiatrist.

Everyone was on God's payroll, whether they knew it or not.

It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful—just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them.

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven

Drummer, beat, and piper, blow, Harper, strike, and soldier, go. Free the flame and sear the grasses Till the dawning Red Star passes.

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

If we can still surmount what is natural and believe what we wish to believe, in spite of the force of evidence, then for a while at least we are masters of our fate, and we can paint the world we want.

I may go alone, Mr. Rathbone, but I am perfectly sure I would not find the ground uninhabited when I got there!

Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?

Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny-and his was, of course, a lie.

You killed them, Reuben. You killed them in their sins! You terminated their destiny on this earth. You snatched from them any chance for repentance, for redemption. You took that from them. You took it all, Reuben. You snuffed out forever the years of reparation they might have lived! You took life itself from them and you took it from their descendants, and yes, even from their victims, you took what their amends might have been.

There is nothing under the sun…nor under the moon, no entity of intellect, that does not have to believe something about itself, something about its purpose, the reason for its suffering, its destiny.

I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew. The bastard monster who made me what I am picked me on account of my good looks. That's the long and short of it. And accidents like that occur all the time.