Quotes About Destiny

Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.

Archetypal images decide the fate of man.

neurosis is…a defence…or an attempt, somewhat dearly paid for, to escape from the inner voice and hence from the vocation…Behind the neurotic perversion is concealed his vocation, his destiny: the growth of personality, the full realization of the life-will that is born with the individual. It is the man without amor fati [love of fate] who is the neurotic; he, truly, has missed his vocation.

You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.

The odds are great, so great as to be almost impossible. But they are no greater than the odds against a soul landing in a human incarnation. And you," Rinpoche was staring right at me, "you have beaten those odds. And so I ask you, what are you going to do with this opportunity?

Lama Tenzing, we are all equal beings in the universe," he'd told me more than once. "If you hold others in the thought that they are victims, you rob them of their power. If you hold others as fully responsible for their own destiny, you ennoble them by treating them as equals.

Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.

Yeah, but some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.

A veces hay que elegir en la vida, y a veces la vida te elige a ti.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.

I don't discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can't be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

Life might take you down different roads. But you get to decide which one to take.

beshert. Meant to be.

So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?" "No. The wind just blew me here." "What? Like a plastic bag?" "I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.