Quotes About Destiny

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

The ancient Sanskrit legends speak of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and enrapture one another. The legends say that the loved one is instantly recognised because she's loved in every gesture, every expression of thought, every movement, every sound, and every mood that prays in her eyes. The legends say that we know her by her wings - the wings that only we can see - and because wanting her kills every other desire of love.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, Karla said, in one of my first conversations with her, then you just don't get the joke.

Fate always gives you two choices, Scorpio George once said: the one you should take, and the one you do.

Every human heartbeat, he's said many times, is a universe of possibilities.

The same legends also carry warnings that such fated love may, sometimes, be the possession and the obsession of one, and only one, of the two souls twinned by destiny. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

The end mirrors the beginning. In the end, its about a woman & a city.

So it begins, this story, like everything else—with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.

Fate always gives you two choices: the one you should take, and the one you do.

Time is the web, and Fate is the spider.

But the past has a way of taking you to the right place at the wrong time, and that can be a storm inside.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.

For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on.

Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.

Every human heartbeat is a universe of possibilities.

But fate—you know fate? Kismet is the word, in the Urdu language—fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie. Men lie, to themselves more than to others, and to others more often than they tell the truth. But fate does not lie. Do you see?

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it's impossible to despise someone you honestly

Wenn einen das Schicksal nicht zum Lachen bringt, dann hat man den Witz nicht kapiert.

Nel mondo è tutto sbagliato, e la cosa peggiore che si possa fare è continuare a vivere. Eppure bisogna continuare a vivere. E questo dilemma che ci fa credere alla bugia che esistano un'anima e un Dio che si preoccupa delle sorti.

fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie.

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become.

Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going?

We are not apes forever. We can change ourselves. We are changing, all the time. We will discover the laws of everything, and we will control our evolution. That is destiny controlling DNA, rather than DNA controlling destiny, as it did forever, until now.

But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamique for their place, their time, and the lives of thousands of people?