Quotes About Destiny

It's hard, too, because Patrick began every night really excited. He always said he felt free. And tonight was his destiny. And things like that. But by the end of that night, he just looked sad.

We are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

We all get an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to us.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can choose where we can go from there.

Supongo que eres quien eres por un montón de razones y quizás nunca conozcamos muchas de ellas pero incluso si no tenemos el poder de elegir de donde venimos, podemos elegir adonde vamos.

acho que somos quem somos por várias razões. E talvez nunca conheçamos a maior parte delas. Mas mesmo que não tenhamos o poder de escolher quem vamos ser, ainda podemos escolher aonde iremos a partir daqui.

We are all tossed on the stormy seas of fate, at the mercy of men and forces beyond our power to comprehend, control or deflect. Sometimes we need an illusion.

There is no such thing as luck. If you think you're lucky and that'll carry you through, you're living on borrowed time.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

And, furthermore, how could they kill him who was the chosen of gods and doomed to greatness?

El que puede cambiar sus pensamientos, puede cambiar su destino

Whatever the truth, science today agrees that everything is destined to return to Chaos. It calls this inevitable fate entropy: part of the great cycle from Chaos to order and back again to Chaos.

Even meaning and destiny themselves can be read in ordinary things, if you have the gift.

It is the destiny of children of spirit to soar too close to the sun and fall no matter how many times they are warned of the danger. Some will make it, but many do not.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

Matters of immense import may depend on such issues, but we can never do more than guess the outcomes of the roads we do not take.

You think you killed me, Hector,' Patroclus gasped. 'But it took the god Apollo to do that. Euphorbus was next. You, famous Hector, noble Hector, were just the third. All you did is finish me off. I die knowing that your fate will be settled by one greater than any … by my Achilles.

It is simply a question of fulfilment. You feel perfectly alive and magnificently perfected by the knowledge that you are doing what you were put on earth to do.

His heart lifted to a state approaching something like happiness, however, when he heard, unexpectedly, the sound of Rhea's low sweet voice humming gently to herself as she came up the slope towards the mountaintop. Loveliest sister and dearest wife! It was quite natural that she had been a little upset by his consumption of their six children, but she surely understood that he had had no choice. She was a Titan, she knew about duty and destiny.

The plans of the immortals, however, are as subject to the cruel tricks of Moros as are the plans of mortals.

If that she-bear had eaten the baby it found o n the mountaintop instead of nursing it, how different the world would now have been

Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)

pollute any happiness or satisfaction he might have enjoyed as king. Consigned to the Dust After many years of peace and prosperity in Thebes, Cadmus and

It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labors, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will." This was all a touch too profound for Heracles. He saw, but did not see. In this he shared the same bemusement on the subject of free will and destiny that befuddles us all.