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Quotes About Destiny

He'd been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I'd always
~ Gregory David Roberts
was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future,' she said slowly. 'I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There are only three big questions?' I asked, unable to keep the sarcasm from my voice. 'Yes,' he answered equably. 'Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Those are the three big questions. And if you love him, Lin, my young friend, if you love him, he will tell you these secrets, as well.
~ Gregory David Roberts
If the fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.
~ Gregory David Roberts
the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
~ Gregory David Roberts
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 recognized 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.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Khader aveva cercato di spiegarmi che ogni uomo ha la possibilita di cambiare il proprio destino. Avevo sempre pensato che il fatto fosse immutabile: determinato al momento della nascita e fisso come le orbite delle stelle. All'improvviso compresi che la vita e molto piu bella e complessa. La verita e che fortuna e sfortuna non contano, e non importa cio che stai facendo: puoi cambiare completamente la tua vita con un solo pensiero, con un solo gesto d'amore.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and needless complicities such as those.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one-half of a great love that wasn't meant to be.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate needs accomplices
~ Gregory David Roberts
Nadie llore de forma más profunda o patética que la otra mitad de un gran amor que no está destinado a ser real. Nothing weeps more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.
~ Gregory David Roberts
It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay. -Elphaba
~ Gregory Maguire
Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
~ Gregory Maguire
Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.
~ Gregory Maguire
the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
~ Gregory Maguire
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
~ Gregory Maguire
I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.
~ Claude Monet
I'm not worried about trying to guarantee a fight for the belt, because that's automatic; it will happen.
~ Junior dos Santos
I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
~ Moza bint Nasser
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
~ Carl Sandburg
I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it's all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.
~ Judith Durham
After living a decade in Jakarta, I chose. I chose Manila, the Philippines, for better or worse.
~ Maria Ressa