Quotes About Destiny

Where all meaning disappears, and all certainty vanishes, something arises deep inside man: the self-preservation of his essential identity. This identity preserves itself through endurance - I have to face my destiny in silence - and through the courage to live and the courage to die with dignity.

palabras de Fraenkel, su médico] (...) el paciente, para hacerse dueño de la enfermedad, tiene que integrarla en su vida. (...) Entre el destino y la voluntad Schicksal und Wille

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Liktenis parasti st?v tepat, aiz m?jas st?ra. Izlikdamies par kabatzagli, ieleni vai loterijas bi?ešu p?rdev?ju: t?s ir vi?a tr?s visbiež?k lietot?s inkarn?cijas. Bet vienu gan tas nedara - nedodas m?jas viz?t?s. Ir pašam j?dodas pie vi?a.

Why would you want to be free of your destiny? Nothing else will satisfy. As for freedom, that's a matter of the heart. Pursue your destiny, and you'll find your freedom along the way.

I've wanted this for so long. Emmaline thought that a lovely thing to say. We barely know each other. No. We've known each other forever, my dearest one, always known the other of us was out there somewhere in the world, waiting. We only just happened to meet today.

You! You are so lucky you're dead.

A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen

In the end we all arrive at the same place. I hardly see that it matters how we get there. It seemed to Ursula that how you got there was the whole point.

I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong.

But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.

he had stayed...because something told him that this was the life that had to be lived out.

Was there a kind of lottery (Reggie imagined a raffle) where God picked out your chosen method of going—"Heart attack for him, cancer for her, let's see, have we had a terrible car crash yet this month?

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.