Quotes About Destiny

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

And, if there's one thing I've learned about life, it's that if you just put one foot on the road you'd like to travel, pretty soon you find yourself arriving there.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; he enthrals and overpowers...he transmutes our personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, and evokes in us all those beneficent forces that ever and anon have enabled humanity to find refuge from every peril and to outlive the longest night.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

From the beginning, I had a sense of destiny, as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to be fulfilled. This gave me an inner security, and, though I could never prove to myself, it proved itself to me. I did not have the certainty, it had me.

no man can know himself unless he know what and not who he is,51 on whom he depends and whose he is (for by the law of truth no one belongs to himself), and to what end he was made.

no such thing as chance, and that every act and every expression has its own meaning, determined by the inner feelings and wishes of the individual.

what is the fate of great nations but a summation of the psychic changes in individuals?

I frequently have a feeling that they [the Dead] are standing directly behind us, waiting to hear what answer we will give to them, and what answer to destiny.

Called or not, the gods will come.

Hasta que no hagas consciente lo que llevas en tu inconsciente, este último dirigirá tu vida y tú le llamarás destino

From then on, my life belonged to the generality.

LékaÃ…â"¢ská diagnóza není obžaloba a nemoc není žádná hanba, ale neÅ¡tÄ›stí.

They sometimes behave like the Delphic oracle that told King Croesus that if he crossed the Halys River he would destroy a large kingdom. It was only after he had been completely defeated in battle after the crossing that he discovered that the kingdom meant by the oracle was his own.

Até você se tornar consciente, o inconsciente irá dirigir sua vida e você vai chamá-lo de destino

The golden apples drop from the same tree, whether they be gathered by an imbecile locksmith's apprentice or by a Schopenhauer.

What are any of us but pawns in the schemes of the great?

A veces —le advirtió el cazador de recompensas—, el odio es lo único que nos dejan los dioses.

Ithaca gave you the beautiful journey. Without her you would not have set out. She has nothing more to give you. And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not fooled you. Having become so wise, with so much experience, You will have understood, by then, what these Ithacas mean.

You can't know that. I may not believe in God, but I've come to believe that there is a pattern. A pattern that works itself out in ways we can't begin to understand.

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.