Quotes About Destiny

el camino de la heroica renunciación que el destino le ordenaba recorrer de rodillas.

aunque en realidad sería más exacto decir que más bien ha sido el mundo el que ha ido quemando etapas y viajando directo hacia su grandioso final y funeral, ya anunciado por esos versos de Yeats

No sabe que le está hablando, sin saberlo, a su destino marcado por la soledad. Porque a su alrededor ha comenzado a tomar posiciones la niebla y en realidad ya hace rato que ni la última sombra del mundo está interesada en acecharle.

Escribir para ser sobre todo fotografiado, amargo destino.

Personas de gran exigencia intelectual y potentísima inteligencia son hoy plenamente conscientes de que su destino en la vida —explicar lo que han entendido y que los otros no comprenden o no quieren ver— no sirve para nada porque a los otros ni les incumbe ni lo comprenden ni lo quieren saber.

El futuro no es ni del todo nuestro ni del todo ajeno.

Si deve poi ricordare che il futuro non è del tutto nostro, né del tutto non nostro

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

El futuro ni depende enteramente de nosotros ni tampoco nos es totalmente ajeno, de modo que no debemos esperarlo como si hubiera de venir infaliblemente ni tampoco desesperarnos como si no hubiera de venir nunca.

Mary blesses God for the destiny that is hers: to cling to the design that the Father decreed for the Son, not only passively, but as one who nurtures, fosters, opens roads, makes things possible. Mary's sorrow was an active coöperation with the will of-God for Christ Jesus. How could it have been otherwise, since the Savior was the common Son—one and undivided—of the all-wise Father and the all-obedient Mother?

The situation in which a person, imagining fondly that he is in charge of his own destiny, is, in fact, the sport of circumstances beyond his control, is always fascinating.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

But wether I am faking on a player piano, or striking the chords with the power of my own mind and hands, the song of my life is equally suspenseful and full of surprises as it rolls off the pulsating sounding board of destiny - a barcarole that either way will leave, I hope, happy echoes behind

Como Shakespeare dijo: "¡La culpa … no es de nuestras estrellas, sino de nosotros mismos, al consentir ser inferiores!

One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go.

sostiene que la libertad no es hacer lo que queremos, sino convertirnos en lo que debemos ser. Este

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

God not only saves us from something, He also saves us for something.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment, wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of Almighty God, not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads

Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment, wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of Almighty God, not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.