Quotes About Destiny

the sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realized its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

The world is a very strange place,and the dice are always rolling

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. So

Damn! Why do those yellow-bellied fates always gang up on the elderly?

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.

Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --

No more you can, time must needs run backward, and since it will not, we must stir our way onward mixing as we go, disorder out of disorder into disorder until pink is complete, unchanging and unchangeable, and we are done with it for ever. This is known as free will or self-determination.

En el cielo de las armonías todas las fijezas eran movimientos y todas las felicidades nacían de la perdición. Sólo el que se perdía se encontraba.

this is the it you've been looking for

They did not believe death was accidental—life might be, but death was deliberate.

Tú y yo tenemos más ayer que nadie. Necesitamos alguna suerte de mañana.

No creían que la muerte fuese un accidente: la vida tal vez lo fuera, pero la muerte era deliberada.

La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n'est rien qu'un peu de passé en retard.

Rick Starmover and Hal Sono in Space Wars: The Return.

If you are a Christian, you do not need to try to discover your purpose. Rather, it is in experiencing God that your purpose will be made known. Experience God, and you will experience your purpose. Know God, and you will know your destiny.

Detrás de cada milagro se encuentra un plan mayor.

Your calling is the customized life purpose God has ordained and equipped you to accomplish in order to bring Him the greatest glory and achieve the maximum expansion of His kingdom.

Here is another indication, then, that divine election is to service and not eternal life.

We humans are destined to live with our feet on the earth and our heads in the heavens, and we can never be at peace because we are pulled both ways.