Quotes About Destiny

You are not here by accident. You are where you are by divine appointment, for the purposes of sharing the gospel

Nintendo, a term meaning "leave luck to heaven."!

Now the search is all that matters. I know there will come a time when I find my book, but it is far in the future. And I know without doubt that it will not be today. Yet a strange hope remains. A hope that somehow, something, God, the demon, Ahura Mazda, someone, will see I'm trying. I'm really trying, and that will be enough.

We're all stories, in the end.

The dead have the easy road: they know the way, because that decision has already been made for them. Only the living are lost.

History and legend conspire to convince us that there are men who rise above the common lot of humankind, who are set apart from the rest of us by birth or achievement or the favor of the gods; but no man, regardless of his pretensions to greatness, is immune from death, and the death of the so-called great is often more squalid and terrifying than the deaths of their most humble subjects.

The strands (the gods) weave out of our mortal lives are like a pattern visible only from the heavens; we here on earth can only guess at their designs

How old did you say you were, Lucius? Thirty-two?" Epaphroditus shook his head. "A dangerous age for a man—old enough to feel that he should be in charge of his destiny and to chafe against the constraints of living under an absolute ruler, but perhaps not yet old enough to discern the fine line that a man must tread if he's to survive the whims of Fortune.

No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, 'So, what did you think?

Some are born for peace and joy Some are born for sorrow But only for a day as we Shall not be here tomorrow

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.

Het is altijd de eeuwige, voorgehouden waarheid die niemand ontgaan kan: dat men in 't zelfde vel blijft steken waarin men geboren is... dat men niet buiten de dingen kan die u omgeven, tenzij in den droom.

Every road I walked would take me down to the sea With every broken promise in my sack And every love would always send the ship of my heart Over the rolling sea

There is something out there for me, he thought, and then he chided himself for the melodrama of the idea. There is something out there for everyone, everywhere, if they have the courage to look. He knew he was no different from anyone else. Perhaps he had simply become the victim of calenture, and had not realised it. He did not feel fevered and yet his compulsion was undeniably mazy.

I always knew we would be reunited one day, but I thought I would have to search long and hard to find you, perhaps even wake you from a tomb.

The coincidences were staggering. Ays and Finnigin looked alike, they had both been followed by a mysterious stranger. Their diverse paths had conjoined in the dark waters of Scarzanera's sacred pit, one plunging to death, another to rebirth. Ays felt sick.

Daniel, beloved, I am powerless to effect the destiny of the divine in the flesh. The time of resurrection is at hand. I can only lament for the loss of his light but I am she who is eternally with you.

If you love him," Ainzu said, "then you can free him, as he prays to free you. But the time for that has yet to come.

My future, I feel, is narrow, and I would like my story to be carried out into the world.

Our final destiny has been revealed to us. We have only to follow it.

Show us the face of the oracle, he who must be ours.

They were part of the same pattern. In his guts, Shan was sure they had to meet.