Quotes About Destiny

Where Eve chooses to go, Adam is bound to travel.

our fate has already been decided for us, the only thing we can do is stand strong and face our destiny head on

Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.

When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the worlds false lessons of fear and control.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world. God never allows waste. And we fools rub our eyes and wonder, when we see genius come out of the gutter. It didn't begin there. We tell ourselves that Shakespeare was the son of a woolpedlar, and Napoleon of a farmer, and Luther of a peasant, and we hold up our hands at the marvel. But who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry!

The path of the king is a lonely one, and few are fit to walk it.

The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.

bujold lois mcmaster ii

It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance, for there is an important distinction between destiny and sheer victimization.

I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.

Eternally inexorable and unconcerned is Fate, a mere heartless trader in men's joys and woes.

Herman Melville

Oh! Ahab, cried Starbuck, not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist. See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!

In this particular Billy was a striking instance that the arch interferer, the envious marplot of Eden, still has more or less to do with every human consignment to this planet of Earth. In every case, one way or another he is sure to slip in his little card, as much as to remind us—I too have a hand here. The

Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me that?" "Give him a good ducking, anyhow.

though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it

God, God is against thee, old man; forbear! 't is an ill voyage! ill begun, ill continued; let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a fair wind of it homewards, to go on a better voyage than this.

Good Lord! is this the road that Jonah went?

Herman Melville

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.

Sí, el mundo es un barco en su viaje de ida, y es un viaje sin vuelta, y el púlpito es su proa.