Quotes About Destiny

What is this place? Who are you, and how did you know I was coming here?" "We know many things, son of Crydee. You are here because it is time for you to face that greatest of terrors, what you call the Enemy. You are here to learn. We are here to teach.

You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never be your father, but nature didn't intend for you to be either of those men, no matter how worthy they were. You must become the best man you are capable of.

Sve je magija. Samo ograni?enja onoga ko se njome služi uslovljavaju koji ?e se put slediti.

There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel." (p. 343)

Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)

Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.

What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.

Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story. Desire for them is in part a desire for a noble destiny, and beauty can seem like a door to meaning as well as to pleasure.

The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there's another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your reach.

But Nonor always said that the Fates don't carve, they weave. Isla does her best to make sure her sister always remembers that. The Fates take the threads that we make from the things we do, Nonor would say, the choices we make, big ones and small ones, all of them, and they weave them in and out, through and under, all the time. They never stop their weave. But they can only use the threads we give them.

You don't get no trophies for livin the life you born into. It just be your job, and you lucky if you can do the work set out in front of you and not fret if it seem puny. Chaney, Little Altars Everywhere

When she designs, and then lives, her own destiny, a woman naturally sets right everything wrong in our world.

Der Sturm klärt den trübsten Himmel auf. Nicht allein unser Charakter und noch weniger die Welt, in die wir hineingeboren werden, sind unser Schicksal. Im Hinterfragen und nicht im Glauben an eine Fügung finden wir Selbstvergewisserung.

When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, You've been lucky! That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.

APRIL 26 PEOPLE WHO FIGHT with other human beings out of anger, hatred and strong emotion, even if they gain victory over their enemies in battle, are not in reality true heroes. What they are doing is slaying corpses, because human beings, being transient, will die. Whether or not these enemies die in the battle is another question, but they will die at some point. So, in reality, they are slaying those already destined to die. The true hero is the one who gains victory over hatred and anger.

Winning the lottery isn't luck, it's an accident. Spending the proceeds wisely is luck.

Nl homin certum est. (Ovid

Levmur superstitine, lbermur mortis met. (Cicero Fin. 1.63:

Hom semper aliud, fortna aliud cgitat.

Su cuique mrs fingunt fortnam. (Cornelius Nepos

Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate.

We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go

Some say that the Black Rabbit hates us and wants our destruction. But the truth is—or so they taught me—that he, too, serves Lord Frith and does no more than his appointed task

Frith meant us to get back," replied Holly. "That's the real reason why we're here.