Quotes About Destiny

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like ships driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish

Teach self denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Proud Maisie Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. 'Tell me, thou bonny bird, When shall I marry me?' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.' 'Who makes the bridal bed, Birdie, say truly?' 'The grey-headed sexton, That delves the grave duly. 'The glowworm o'er grave and stone Shall light thee steady; The owl from the steeple sing, 'Welcome, proud lady.

Count no man happy until the end is known.

the divorce wasn't a failure, just a destined ending, and it was simply time for my journey to continue in a different direction.

Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them. (Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)

That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down... I still believe it was.

Even when you think you have lost yourself, love can still find you.

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

People change. Life changes. It's the way of the world. Maybe it's meant to be.

The rational part of my brain understands that everything is random. There are a million possibilities in the universe. Us meeting is just one of those possibilities, and just as meaningless. The thing is, though, I can't imagine a world that didn't bring us together. We were meant to be.

Some people are born into roles. Others have roles thrust upon them.

Maybe sometimes in life you just miss your chance

mean, it's fine. Really. That's the way it goes. Some things happen—and some things don't. This one obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I still believe it was.

Be honest! Magnus, you and I, we're not destined to be together forever. We're not the main event. I think we're …" I screw up my face, trying to think of a way to put it. "I think we're each other's footnotes.

gaze at it in bewilderment. How can something so perfect just be waiting for me? Did the Christmas-present gods see me coming?

Maybe this is karma.

Do not fear for me. Make straight your own path to destiny.

For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

Weep not, everything must have its day.

They are dying, the old oracles sent to Laius, now our masters strike them off the rolls. Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now -- the gods, the gods go down.

You chose to live, I chose to die.

Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.

Long, long ago; her thought was of that child By him begot, the son by whom the sire Was murdered and the mother left to breed With her own seed, a monstrous progeny. Then she bewailed the marriage bed whereon Poor wretch, she had conceived a double brood, Husband by husband, children by her child.