Quotes About Destiny

It's not what's happening to you now or what's happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

She was not softly delicate in all her ways; but in disposition and temper she was altogether generous. I do not know that she was at all points a lady, but had Fate so willed it she would have been a thorough gentleman.

but things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him.

The only question was whether he must die at once speechless, unconscious, stricken to death by his first heavy fit, or whether by due aid of medical skill he might not be so far brought back to this world as to become conscious of his state and enabled to address one prayer to his Maker before he was called to meet Him face to face at the judgement seat.

Blood, indeed! If my father had been a baker, I should know by this time where to look for my livelihood. As it is, I am told of nothing but my blood. Will my blood ever get me half a crown?

Do?" said Mrs. Robarts. "Yes, something must be done. If I were a man I should go to Switzerland, of course; or, as the case is a bad one, perhaps as far as Hungary. What is it that girls do? they don't die nowadays, I believe.

You can't alter a man's nature. Oswald was born to be a master of hounds, and you were born to be a Secretary of State.

That some repent no one can doubt; but I am inclined to believe that most men and women take their lots as they find them, marrying as the birds do by force of nature, and going on with their mates with a general, though not perhaps an undisturbed satisfaction, feeling inwardly assured that Providence, if it have not done the very best for them, has done for them as well as they could do for themselves with all the thought in the world.

Nous ne sommes pas libres. Et le ciel peut encore nous tomber sur la tête. Et le théâtre est fait pour nous apprendre d'abord cela

It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

Yo ya no soy el mismo.Ya no pregunto cómo será mi destino. Le debo a Ezequiel el haberme enseñado que la vida no es más que eso: asomar la cabeza, para ver qué pasa fuera, aunque haya tormenta. Y una Suite de Bach

pensé en todos los que habitan en las ciudades y en quienes van de una ciudad a otra, de un país a otro, de un planeta a otro planeta, como si en algún lado las cosas fueran a ser mejor, como si en algún lado uno pudiera sacarse los zapatos, y sin temer nunca más, equilibrado en su destino, manejándolo en el puño, palpando directamente el valor y la gallardía en los latidos calientes de la esperanza, decir aquí me quedo y nada me moverá

Un luogo non è mai solo "quel" luogo: quel luogo siamo un po' anche noi. In qualche modo, senza saperlo, ce lo portavamo dentro e un giorno, per caso, ci siamo arrivati.

What peace it must be to know that someone is yours, no matter what - it is ordained, can never be otherwise.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Recognition, as the name indicates, is a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune.

Pero a todas las cosas de que puede disponer el hombre, puede darse un destino bueno o malo, y la riqueza es una de estas cosas.

É belo morrer antes de se fazer algo digno da morte. - Anaxândrias

La historia cuenta lo que sucedió; la poesía lo que debía suceder.

It's a funny thing about love. You can't make it right when it's wrong and you can't make it wrong when it's right, no matter how hard you try.

There's room for destiny! For miracles! There always is, and they always happen!

The quest may be about enkantos -- but in truth. It is a quest of the heart! A quest to know and meet the eternal.

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I've been moving towards it my whole life.