Quotes About Destiny

There are those to say a faith is something beyond our command, but destiny is not our own. I know, our faith lives in us. We only have to be brave enough to see it.

But if life has any definition at all, it is the things that happen to us while we are making plans.

I stop in front of the bus station, look in on the waiting people, and think about all the places they are going. But I know they can't run away from it or drink their way out of it or die to get rid of it. It's always there, you just look at somebody and they give you a look like the Wrath of God.

when you're on your path, the universe will conspire to help you.

If you own this story, you get to write the ending.

Fuil an thiarna, foaru. Finné anois tabhair ar fad saol rioga. Tastail ionachta go deo.

Nadie puede desafiar al destino.

Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it… (Revelation 3:8).

So, Esther, don't go fight for them. Go fight with them, knowing that your destiny is tied to their destiny. Your well-being is tied to their well-being.

We are the authors of our lives. We write our own daring endings.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Zij ging vertrekken, maar zij wist nog niet waar zij uiteindelijk terecht zou komen. Zij moest iets volbrengen, maar zij had geen duidelijke voorstelling van wat dat was. Voorgevoel zei haar, dat een serene ouderdom voor haar niet was weggelegd.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

F)or no word that has been uttered for the purpose of making man the master of his own fate has been spoken in vain.

God allowed no mistakes.

This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.

Neither you nor I believe in miracles. If they happen, they happen. But believing in them, expecting them – that's nothing more than wasting the time alloted to you.

Nobody can ask to have their life declared invalid, and demand that the dice be thrown afresh. There is no going back.

Life tosses us all hither and thither. Is there anything we can truly decide for ourselves?

The world says, "When you were young you were dependent and could not go where you wanted, but when you grow old you will be able to make your own decisions, go your own way, and control your own destiny." But Jesus has a different vision of maturity: It is the ability and willingness to be led where you would rather not go.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

for the destiny of all men lay in the hands which could administer or withhold the sacraments essential to salvation. Thus intrusted with responsibility for the fate of mankind, it was necessary that the Church should possess the powers and the machinery requisite for the due discharge of a trust so unspeakably important.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?