Quotes About Destiny

are we just avoiding our one true destiny when we do that, averting our glance from Philip Larkin who waits for us in an undertaker's coat?

Out of respect for things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures and my style is directly related to my limitations

Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Nu m-ai fi cautat, daca nu m-ai fi gasit

La chose la plus importante à toute vie est le choix d'un métier : le hasard en dispose.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.

God said: Abraham, kill me a son. Abe said: Man, you must be putting me on. God said: No. Abe said: What God said: You can do what you want Abe but the next time you see me coming you'd better run. Abe said: Where you want this killing done? God said: Out on Highway 61.

it ain't where you're from, its where you're going to

I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be so I'm on my way home.

Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about will come true. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

The alliance between Suze and me didn't turn out exactly to be a holiday in the woods. Eventually fate flagged it down and it came to a full stop. It had to end. She took one turn in the road and I took another.

All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of. I'd left my hometown only ten years earlier, wasn't vociferating the opinions of anybody. My destiny lay down the road with whatever life invited, had nothing to do with representing any kind of civilization. Being true to yourself, that was the thing.

What we see and hear is what we think about. What we think about is what we feel. What we feel influences our reactions. Reactions become habits and it is our habits that determine our destiny.

You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

Even in my bad luck I have always been lucky.

Una adversidad es una herida que se inscribe en nuestra historia, pero no es un destino.

You need to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good.

In years of affliction, in times Of unthinkable daily life, She was thrown to him from the bottom By the wave of destiny.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

there are certain traits that God puts in each of us. There's no escaping them.

Don't you know me by now, Angel? I never do what I'm meant for.

We all hate something from our past, Cal. That's why we run from it, or compensate for it, or even fill our van with homeless people. But when something like this happens-when your dad shows up-maybe there is a bigger purpose. 'What you intended for evil, God intended for good.' Genesis 50:20

they call coincidences like that? Nothing. Because things like that aren't coincidence. Especially in Ekron," Dino added, referring to their small hometown in Pennsylvania.