Quotes About Destiny

Some things are not meant to be, Leighton Atwood had said the night before. But if they were not meant to be, then why did the forces of destiny keep bringing them together?

Do you leave as a ship sailing out of harbour? Do you return as rain to the earth? Will I guide you in the Beyond, if I hold aloft the brightest light here on Earth?

La noche que naciste, las estrellas cayeron. El día que nos conocimos, cayo un rayo. Mi presente, mi futuro. Mi esperanza, mi plegaria, mi destino,

There was an intimate connection between them, as if they'd known each other always. They were not strangers; they'd merely never met before.

You're putting it in God's hands. Last time I checked, He was even better than you at making sure things turn out the way they're supposed to.

With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun.

Does one really have to fret About enlightenment? No matter what road I travel, I'm going home.

It is not unreasonable that in contact with modern science, and inspired by the spirit of history, the original discoveries of Gautama, rigorized and extended, will play a large part in the direction of human destiny.

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.

Our thoughts are causes. You sow a thought, you reap an action. You sow an action, you reap a habit. You sow a habit, you reap a character. You sow a character, you reap a destiny. It all starts with a thought.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan

This life is a one-way street.

it is far better to marry the right person at the wrong time than the wrong person at the right time.

Who could guess he'd have a tooth pulled by Shmelke the healer and lie down the next morning and die? It's as my mother says: "Tomorrow is another day—but whose?

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.

Fatality is doing the right things at the wrong time!!!!

God made the world round, to teach us , its not always wrong to reach right where we started

Luck is an excuse You give for not understanding God's planning

One's course in life often pivots on small incidents.

Thoughts are funny little things,They can make paupers or make kings.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.