Quotes About Destiny

Qual é o significado de tudo isso? Qual o objetivo dessa tristeza toda? Deve ter algum propósito, ou então o universo é governado pelo acaso. Mas qual é o propósito?

As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune. "…What's real is something that not even the strength of the Goddess can change. The only one who can change it is me. If I don't change my destiny, if I don't cut through the obstacles in my path, then no matter where I go, I'll always be standing in the same place, doing the same thing over and over again, for the rest of my life.

Look at yourself. Hatred and anger, kindness and bravery. They are all yours, and rightly so. Accept this, face it straight on, then ask yourself what it means to change your destiny.

Was it possible, he wondered, that every human is sentenced to a particular lifelong exercise of will, with a duty to accept it with grace and strength?

Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians.

O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

in any case over sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

It was the sort of view that might command a slight premium during gentler, more prosperous times, but would be most undesirable in times of conflict, when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War

Geography is destiny

Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War

He noticed her. He listened to her. He summoned the nerve to speak to her. And that, as they were both fond of saying when recounting the story of their meeting in subsequent years, was that.

Fighting against one's Fate can weaken the blood. Sometimes, or perhaps most times, it can be fatal.

A busload of pilgrims today on journeys they never chose, having once believed themselves born for more than this.

Les hommes, quelque beau visage que fortune leur fasse, ne se peuvent appeler heureux jusqu'à ce qu'on leur ai vu passer le dernier jour de leur vie, à cause de l'incertitude et de la variabilité des choses humaines qui d'un bien léger mouvement se changent d'un état en un autre tout divers

Nul vent ne faict pour celuy qui n'a point de port destiné

This is the meaning of Star Wars: we were rebels; we are Empire. And like all rebellious children, we were but going through a phase. We are getting ready for adulthood, after we sowed a few wild oats. Once grown, we put on our imperial uniform, and bowed to the Empire. It is your destiny. Right? Unless—

Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don't have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You're allowed to cry and take care of children and cook and get your heart broken and dress up and date and get pregnant. But when decisions have to be made, a strong character makes them and doesn't wait for someone else.

Perhaps this was indeed the way so remarkably accomplished a man was destined to meet his end,' he replied, 'because two or three years ago he began looking very downcast and melancholy, and I often warned him, despite my own want of sense, that a man who sees too far into life and thinks about things too deeply becomes too detached from them and to be attractive and only loses whatever luster he may have had, but he seemed merely to find my opinion shallow.

One's prime is the moment one was born for. 

In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn't think of discarding them just because you didn't altogether like them.

Nothing happens by chance. This is a world of order and laws.

Remember always that what you are seeking is also seeking you.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

Don't ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.