Quotes About Destiny

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

Creation is the only answer one can give to fate, to the 'terror of history.

A Molotschna, la sort no existeix. És pecat creure en la sort. Un s'ha d'avergonyir de plorar. Tot és voluntat de Déu, res no queda abandonat a l'atzar en la creació de Déu. Si Déu va crear el món, per què no ens hi hem d'incloure nosaltres?

És veritat, diu la Mariche. No tenim pas la intenció de travessar el planeta. I per què no?, replica l'Ona. I afegeix una dada interessant. Sabíeu, diu, que el període de migració de les papallones i dels espiadimonis és tan llarg que sovint només arriben al destí marcat els nets d'aquestes espècies?

La Mariche explica que a la Mejal li ha vingut l'atac arran del pensament que les dones podrien fer el seu propi mapa. No es tracta d'un temor conscient d'això de fer un mapa, precisa, sinó del que implica la qüestió: que som mestresses del nostre propi destí. Que ens n'anirem cap a un espai desconegut.

Did you know, she says, that the migration period of butterflies and dragonflies is so long that it is often only the grandchildren who arrive at the intended destination.

Would a Catholic turn down the chance to visit Lourdes? Or a Muslim an opportunity to see Mecca? Well, no self-respecting criminal would pass up the offer of a week in Odessa.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

There is a reason God limits man's days.

We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?

But fates are connected in ways we don't understand.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

The length of your days does not belong to you.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.

There are five people you meet in heaven, the Blue Man suddenly said. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.

It is too late. The old man shook his head. It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be. He smiled. There is a plan, Dor.

This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.