Quotes About Destiny

Go where your best prayers take you.

he knew that he'd run into his destiny as a man in the dark walks into a wall.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

If it comes at all, Emerson has cautioned that one's call might not come for years. If it doesn't, he remarks it as only a reflection of the universe's faith in one's abstinence, nothing to move the heart to fret

One day, maybe not too long from now, the Russian empire will begin to crack. One day soon, the Romanians

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

His usual approach in his young life—letting events come to him, being the detached if often perspicacious observer—would not suffice here, he realized. He had to seize control, had to bend destiny to his will.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

No gulls, no luck.

Planmässig vorgehende Menschen wollen ein bestimmtes Ziel erreichen. Der Zufall trifft sie dann am schlimmsten, wenn sie durch ihn das Gegenteil ihres Ziels erreichen: Das, was sie befürchteten, was sie zu vermeiden suchen (z.B. Ödipus).

I destini, considerati a posteriori, sono logici

2) Geht man von einer Geschichte aus, muss sie zu Ende gedacht werden. (3) Eine Geschichte ist dann zu Ende gedacht, wenn sie ihre schlimmstmögliche Wendung genommen hat. (4) Die schlimmstmögliche Wendung ist nicht vorhersehbar. Sie tritt durch Zufall ein.

Qué son los siglos, comparados a ese instante en que dos seres se adivinan y se acercan?

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.

In today already walks tomorrow.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it -- it is the future that makes laws for us today.

Trials there must be upon this earth. We are made of a stuff that easily corrupts when nothing calls to order, when a sign from the Lord does not reach us soon enough. Do not complain that destiny has rent your soul; For God knows best what will help us.

I only know that sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course.

The incarnate angel of Tolkien's mythology, Gandalf the Grey, said it well in a conversation with Frodo. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," laments the young Hobbit. "So do I," Gandalf replies, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?