Quotes About Destiny

You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

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.

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

It is never too late or too soon, the old man had said. It is when it is supposed to be.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

There are no random acts.

He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.

Talent is a piece of God's shadow. And under that shadow, human stories intersect.

The hands of a clock will find their way home.

What is the reason?' 'Finish your journey and you will know.

some things you endure for a reason

And while she didn't know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.

All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you. Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. What? he said. That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

will share a secret: this is how talents are bestowed. Before newborns open their eyes, we circle them, appearing as brilliant colors, and when they clench their tiny hands for the first time, they are actually grabbing the colors they find most appealing. Those talents are with them for life. The lucky ones (well, in my opinion, the lucky ones) choose me. Music.

That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." Eddie shook his head. "We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain't fair." The Blue Man held out his hand. "Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.

What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The pendulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flow of time completely …

They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected every day.

Do you really think we'll meet again one day? "Don't you?

Dear friends. I'm dying. "Don't be upset. I began to die on July 6, 1917. That's the day I was born, and, in council with what our psalmist says, 'We who are born, are born to die.

Only God can write the end of your story.

the mystery of death is why it chooses a particular moment. With no earthly answer, coincidence can become conspiracy.

Fairness does not govern life and death.

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... Love comes when it comes.