Quotes About Destiny

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--

No lo entiendes: ella había nacido para morir. Yo nací para matar. Simplemente, era cuestión de que nos encontráramos el uno al otro.

Pensó en su hermana, quince años mayor que él, una diferencia de edad que los convertía en miembros de la misma familia situados en órbitas distintas. Ella era la mayor; él era fruto de un accidente, destinado a ser siempre el bebé de la familia

El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte

A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.

La vida no es más que eso, indicó el viejo analista meneando la cabeza. Un juego tras otro . Y la muerte es el mayor juego de todos.

Water takes the shape of whatever container holds it, whether it be in a glass, a vase or a river bank. Likewise, your subconscious will create and manifest according to the images you habitually project upon it through your daily thinking. This is how your destiny is created. Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

There is no fate. Whatever I do from this point on is down to me. I choose my own path. Write my own story.

Sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries." He thought

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

We are all born slaves, and we must continue so;

Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.

Let me stand to the main chance.

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

Faith is a creative act. It is through faith that we transform the accidental events of our lives into the signs of our destiny. Happiness is fortuitous but meaning is conferred when chance is transfigured through a rebirth of images.

We are created for something more serious than just a day-to-day survival.

We know not whom God loves nor whom He hates.