Quotes About Destiny

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

Once every so often—at the very most—I think someone actually chooses something. Otherwise we're following something—we don't even know what it is but we follow it

It did not matter at this point; my life had unfolded as it had.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

When the chairman of the Democratic National Committee came to see him after the election to ask for some political favors, and reminded Wilson that he owed his election to that party and its leadership committee, Wilson coldly cut him down to size. "Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States," he told the astonished chairman. "Neither you nor any other mortal could have chosen another president."30

If Aristotle had been right and it was man's destiny to be free, if our nature as human beings makes us fit to govern our lives as we see fit, then why is it that everywhere we look human beings are unfree and submit to various forms of tyranny and slavery, including now in Florence? Why did freedom fail, not only in Florence but throughout history—even ancient Greece and Rome?

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

Wat is dat toch aan een mens dat het idee dat alles eindig is en uiteindelijk toch zal verzinken in anderhalve kuub aarde hem niet bij voorbaat moedeloos maakt een kort na zijn geboorte al bij de pakken neer doet zitten? ?Japin

Ik vraag me af waar meer durf voor nodig is, doorleven met een lot dat je kent of aanmodderen zonder enig idee van wat je staat te gebeuren

Een mens kan nou eenmaal niet zomaar uit- en overstappen. Als er onderweg al plekken zijn waar je misschien nog een afsprong had durven wagen, ben je er al voorbij voordat je het doorhebt. Bovendien, waarheen kan een mens anders kijken dan vooruit.

Demographics is destiny

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?

O vento Sul me fez lembrar miseráveis incidentes de infância, meus desesperos de verão, a horrível quantidade de força e de ciência que o destino sempre afastou de mim. Não! não passaremos o verão neste país mesquinho onde nada mais seremos que noivos órfãos. Quero que este braço teso não arraste mais uma imagem querida.

I might be the child abandoned on the wharf setting out for the high seas, or the farmhand, following the path whose top reaches the sky.

Here then is a sure resting-place for the heart. Our lives are neither the product of blind fate nor the result of capricious chance, but every detail of them was ordained from all eternity, and is now ordered by the living and reigning God. Not a hair of our heads can be touched without His permission.

No revolving world, no shining of star, no storm, no creature moves, no actions of men, no errands of angels, no deeds of Devil—nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed.

Here then is a sure resting-place for the heart. Our lives are neither the product of blind fate nor the result of capricious chance, but every detail of them was ordained from all eternity, and is now ordered by the living and reigning God. Not a hair of our heads can be touched without His permission. "A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps" (Pro 16:9). What assurance, what strength, what comfort this should give the real Christian!

But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices.

El 326 tenía por delante menos futuro que María Antonieta la mañana que le cortaron el pelo en la Conciergerie.

Felices los que mueren por dejallas, o los que viven sin amores dellas, o, por su dicha, llegan a enterrallas.

Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod. La última carta la juega la Muerte.