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Quotes About Destiny

Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us towards our destiny.
~ Napoleon Hill
Many philosophers have made the statement, that man is the master of his own earthly destiny, but most of them have failed to say why he is the master. The reason that man may be the master of his own earthly status, and especially his financial status, is thoroughly explained in this chapter. Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.
~ Napoleon Hill
The worn tired stars say you shall die early and die dirty. The clean cold stars say you shall die late and die clean. The runaway stars say you shall never die at all, never at all.
~ Carl Sandburg
SONG OF THE MAN WHO WAS TO BE HUNG The thunders will take me home, whenever I mind to go home, my friends, and the wind it will take me home, too.
~ Carl Sandburg
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions.... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
~ Carlos Casteneda
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn't aware of it.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Coincidences are the scars of fate.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Yo creo que nada sucede por casualidad, ¿sabes? Que, en el fondo, las cosas tienen su plan secreto, aunque nosotros no lo entendamos.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Siempre había pensado que las viejas estaciones de ferrocarril eran uno de los pocos lugares mágicos que quedaban en el mundo. En ellas se mezclaban los fantasmas de recuerdos y despedidas con el inicio de cientos de viajes a destinos lejanos, sin retorno. Si algun dia me pierdo, que me busquen en una estación de tren, pensé.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their own secret plan, even though we don't understand it .
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
El destino suele estar a la vuelta de la esquina. Como si fuese un chorizo, una furcia o un vendedor de lotería: sus tres encarnaciones más socorridas. Pero lo que no hace es visitas a domicilio. Hay que ir a por él. -Fermín Romero de Torres.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are no condidences . We are puppets of our subconscious desires
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You only love truly once in your lifetime, even if you aren't always aware of it.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon