Quotes About Destiny

The wind of fate, and in it rests our lives.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Anatomy is destiny.

Everyone owes nature a death.

Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

Eros and Ananke [Love and Necessity] have become the parents of human civilization.

Now when the child grows up and finds that he is destined to remain a child for ever, and that he can never do without protection against unknown and mighty powers, he invests these with the traits of the father-figure; he creates for himself the gods, of whom he is afraid, whom he seeks to propitiate, and to whom he nevertheless entrusts the task of protecting him.

Eros und Ananke sind auch die Eltern der menschlichen Kultur geworden.

Anatomy is destiny, and it is indeed grim destiny that a man who wishes to impose his will on a woman often has the means of physical force available to him. The same is not generally true in reverse. This biological fact of nature is not fair. But there is no fairness in nature. There is only nature in nature.

The final transformation which the fear of the super-ego undergoes is, it seems to me, the fear of death (or fear for life) which is a fear of the super-ego projected on to the powers of destiny.

No dudo que para el Destino sería más fácil que para mí curarla, pero ya se convencerá usted de que adelantamos mucho si conseguimos transformar su miseria histérica en un infortunio corriente.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,as in what direction we are moving.To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the windand sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor

I Am the Architect of My Own Destiny

Death the only god who must come when he's called

Så tenkte jeg, og derfor sa jeg det. Men sørg ikke over dette; ti jeg selv har voldt at slik måtte det ende. Og Gud bedre det for deg, sønn, så du ikke arver vår lykke. Gjør nu som din mor vil; lenge har jeg lengtet etter at mitt hode skulle ligge i hennes fang.

We get what fate deals out to us, lad. And we have no choice about how we handle it.' Cato smiled. 'What's this? Philosophy?' 'Experience, lad. Much better.

So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about – He is looking for us.

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them?

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

one of the problems he will seek to solve is how to make his wife both a servant and a companion; his attitude will evolve throughout the centuries, and this will also entail an evolution in woman's destiny.11