Quotes About Destiny

In most action movies, one person rises out of a humble beginning to discover that they have been chosen by destiny to save the world. But that's not how it works in real life. You rise out of your humble beginning to become part of a community, and it is only together and as equals that we will save the world.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

Looking ahead, focus on direction rather than destinations.Maintain the right direction and you'll arrive at where you want to go.

Show me your calendar and I will tell you your priorities. Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you where you're going.

To become the meat of an asshole sandwich seemed like destiny.

All this is happening for a reason." Yeah, she thought, to annoy me.

It wasn't a choice, really. She knew that she must become what she was born to be. And yet, if she fully embraced her powers, she would also accept that she wasn't human but was something more powerful and more deadly. What would happen to the person she had been?

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

What if the Hand of God decides to choke you to death on your next portion of Parma ham?

I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar.

I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful things.

I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

There is no book like the Qur'an. It quickens hearts and transforms lives, it leads whole people from glory to glory. It is the final answer to man's eternal, existential quest. For Muslims, it is the ultimate arbiter of their destiny: be it their rise to the heights of glory and civilization or their fall into the bottomless pits of decay and ignominy, it all happens because of how they live with respect to the Qur'an.

Fear of death and an overpowering love of this-worldly possessions sap and destroy the strength of a community. If people fear death, then death becomes the fate of their community. Those who have no fear of death, life is their destiny.

Unless a miracle saves us,' Khushwant Singh writes, 'the country will break up. It will not be Pakistan or any other foreign power that will destroy us; we will commit hara-kiri.

In green heaven's fields I saw the sickle of the new moon Remembered by sowing and by harvest, And said: O Kismet, you sleep and the sun blossoms The reply: Do not be as hopeless as the past. She repeated the last line: 'Do not be as hopeless as the past.

Yahan khuda hai, wahan khuda hai... idhar khuda hai, udhar khuda hai... jahan nahin khuda hain, wahan kal khudega... Contributed

What comes is called.

A fish is not seduced by bait. When it grows hungry, it eats whichever mosquito or dragonfly happens to be closest. If one is fortunate or destined, it is one's bait that is closest at that moment. But it is chance that fish and bait are in the right places at the right time.

Her faith will always be there. It's there now. We've seen it. God has preserved her for some great purpose, and her faith is there to carry her through.

That's the problem with destiny: You know she'll get you there eventually, but how she does it is generally a big fat mystery.

You can't outrun the inevitable.