Quotes About Destiny

If, someday, Julian should be reborn, she wished him well.

Thea! I was looking for you." It was Eric's voice. Warm, eager-everything that Thea wasn't. She turned to see green eyes flecked with dancing gray and an astonishing smile. A smile that drew her in, changing the world. Maybe everything was going to be all right, after all.

How little he knew about the rules of this world which he had crashed against so casually, like a moth bumping against a light!

The greater part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches.

Whatever difference may appear in men's fortunes, there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and ill that makes all equal.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

Il appartenait sans aucun doute à cette lignée idéales de chenapans que la Providence institua, dès l'origine, pour l'équilibre des Séraphins.

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?" "You," he said. "And me.

I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.

There will be godstars. And they will be us.

If this were a book or movie, she thought, she'd be able to read the stars and get her bearings. Characters always had just the right random skill set to master the situation at hand. Like, Thank god for that summer on an uncle's smuggling boat and the handsome deckhand who taught me celestial navigation. Ha.

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable "something else," but now it was the opposite. Here, in the circle of Akiva's presence, even as they spoke of war and siege and enduring enmity, she felt herself being drawn into the warm absoluteness and rightness of him, like he was both place and person and, contrary to all reason, exactly where she was supposed to be.

shrestha (SHRES·thuh) noun When a dream comes true—but not for the dreamer. Archaic;

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

Or...perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?