Quotes About Destiny

our sins are manufactured in heaven to create our own hell.

theres no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one.

sometimes you die sometimes you don't.

if I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this.

but what can I make of love when we are all born at a different time and place and only meet through a trick of centuries and a chance three steps to the left? you

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. I knew that I wasn't entirely sane. I still knew, as I had as a child, that there was something strange about myself. I felt as if I were destined to be a murderer, a bank robber, a saint, a rapist, a monk, a hermit.

Gathered around me were the weak instead of the strong, the ugly instead of the beautiful, the losers instead of the winners. It looked like it was my destiny to travel in their company through life. That didn't bother me so much as the fact that I seemed irresistible to these dull idiot fellows.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you…

nessuno trova mai quello giusto.

Curtis was just a chip off old Franky only she had much better legs. Poor Franky didn't have any legs but he had a wonderful brain. In some other country he would have made

Since if past performance charts mean anything I'll surely go first the last way.

Nessuno trova mai la persona giusta.

this then will be my destiny: scrabbling for pennies in dark tiny halls reading poems I have long since become tired of. and I used to think that men who drove buses or cleaned out latrines or murdered men in alleys were fools.

some men never die and some men never live but

some men never die and some men never live

no te precipites. si existe la luz ella misma dará contigo.

hay un viejo dicho: cuando los dioses quieren destruir a alguien, primero lo ponen furioso.

Estamos aquí para reírnos del destino y vivir tan bien nuestra vida… que la muerte temblará al recibirnos

The idea, I decided, is not to think. But how do you stop thinking? Why was I chosen to polish this rail? Why couldn't I be inside writing editorials about municipal corruption? Well, it could be worse. I could be in China working a rice paddy.

That a man can change himself, improve himself, re-create himself, control his environment, and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action - Larsen

Oh, Mary said, life is mostly just what happens. Choice or chance or fate, gods or not. Like it or not. Things happen, we do what we think is in our best interests or just convenient, and then we live with the consequences.

Whether you pick well or poorly, the act of choosing carries grief. Leaves you wondering, years later, what life might have been had you chosen differently. . . . Or even wishing you'd simply paused, taken a long, deep breath. Not allowed the personal moment and the pattern of your family and your stupid culture to shove you two-handed from behind, forcing you to stumble unbalanced into the future

Psalm lxxviii. 71, 72, 73.  He chose David his servant, and took him away from the sheep-folds. 

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.