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Quotes About Destiny

It is on this world that we developed our passion for exploring the Cosmos, and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.
~ Carl Sagan
Anatomy is not destiny, but it is not irrelevant either.
~ Carl Sagan
You'd be surprised how rarely something like that happens. In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it. In such a case, our job would be to leave them alone. To make sure that no one bothers them. To let them work out their destiny.
~ Carl Sagan
We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path what will take us to the stars - unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first.
~ Carl Sagan
Luck is believing your lucky.
~ Tennessee Williams
Siempre hay un tiempo para marchar aunque no haya sitio a donde ir. Tennessee Williams
~ Tennessee Williams
To Fate, a fickle mistress whose sense of justice is exceeded only by her sense of humor.
~ Teresa Medeiros
There are meaningful deaths. And there are absurd and utterly meaningless deaths. Unfortunately, you don't get to choose which one you get.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Well, he said softly, in this life you're often born one thing and die another. You don't have to accept that what you're given when you come in is all you'll have when you leave.
~ Terry Brooks
We use so many words to describe what happens to us, and it all amounts to the same thing. We live out our lives as we are meant to live them—with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
~ Terry Brooks
The future is a map drawn in the sand, and the tide can wash it away in a moment.
~ Terry Brooks
Blind acceptance of what you believe to be the dictates of fate and circumstance is dangerous.
~ Terry Brooks
Life was a myriad of twists and turns that no one could unravel, a path that must be traveled to be understood.
~ Terry Brooks
Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.
~ Terry Brooks
Jethen Amenades
~ Terry Brooks
One kiss did not create a lifetime relationship. One moment did not define everything that would happen in the future.
~ Terry Brooks
It is not given to us already cast. It is given as a set of possibilities, and we must choose which of these we would make happen and then try to see it done.
~ Terry Brooks
La vida es el momento de tomar decisiones, Walker Boh. Y la muerte es el momento de recordar lo que hemos decidido.
~ Terry Brooks
Life was so mysterious and quixotic. It was an infinite maze, but ultimately there was only one right path for each human who sought to navigate its twisting corridors.
~ Terry Brooks
Le leggende e i miti che non esistevano ieri riprenderanno vita nel mondo di domani. Dopo un sonno di secoli, esseri malvagi, spietati e astuti si risveglieranno. L'ombra del Signore degli Inganni comincia a scendere sulle quattro Terre.
~ Terry Brooks
He still doesn't know how life can turn you around and twist you about and do with you what it will.
~ Terry Brooks
given the power to choose our fate. Fate always decides for us in the end, though we can choose the direction and make the journey. We do as much for ourselves as we can. Sometimes it is enough; sometimes it isn't. But we must try; it is in the nature of our character to always try." I stare at him, thinking through what he says.
~ Terry Brooks
Everything happens for a reason, though we might not
~ Terry Brooks
If you want to worry about something, I don't think it should be about whether you owe your existence to God or the Word or whoever. I think you should worry about what's expected of you now that you're here and how you're going to keep from being a major disappointment.
~ Terry Brooks