Quotes About Destiny

If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements

Was everything an accident of geography?

Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.

I fell in love when I was twenty-six. Love in my interpretation comes once in a lifetime.

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

O coração reconhecerá o seu único e verdadeiro companheiro

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.

You could tell he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?

When I sat up he was looking at me. His face was hopeful and unbelieving and also a little sad, and I wondered if it was anything like my father's face when he looked at my mother all those years ago at the Dead Sea, setting in motion a train of events that had finally brought me here, to the middle of nowhere, with a boy I'd grown up with but hardly knew.

I guess we all get to live out our destiny, even those of us who have to choose the worst one imaginable. So why did I take this strange, dark trip? Well, I have a little 1-2-3 theory on this.

Great moments are born great oppurtunity

As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

Luck is blind, they say. It can't see where it's going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

What are you looking at, grandfather? he asked with curiosity. The old man raised his head and smiled sadly. At my life flowing and disappearing, son, flowing and disappearing. Don't worry, grandfather, it knows where it is going–toward the sea, everyone's life flows toward the sea. The old man sighed. Yes, my son, that is why the sea is salty—from the many tears. He turned back to the flowing stream and did not speak again.

Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters. What is our goal? To be shipwrecked!

I ask and ask again, beating on chaos: "Who plants us on this earth without asking our permission? Who uproots us from this earth without asking our permission?

He did not die. The only ones who die are those who are too late to become immortal. He was not too late. God granted him time.

Semnul lasat de Dumnezeu cand atinge omul se numeste moarte.

Whatever befalls us has its meaning; though it is often hard to grasp. In the Book of Life every page has two sides. On the upper one, we inscribe our plans, dreams and hopes; the reverse is filled by providence, whose verdicts rarely match our desire.

Pese a todo lo que puede hacer un médico, maestro ¿por qué es una hoja al viento y el auténtico poder sólo está en manos de Alá?

They say some are born healers. Selected." The Jew smiled at him. "Of course, others are simply lucky

They say some are born healers. Selected." The Jew smiled at him. "Of course, others are simply lucky," he said.