Quotes About Destiny

Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. - Sleepless in Seattle

When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there's no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there's a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don't happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, "Everything happens for a reason," I would like to smack her.)

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out. – Nora Ephron

People who run four miles a day and eat only nuts and berries drop dead. People who drink a quart of whiskey and smoke two packs of cigarettes a day drop dead. You are suddenly in a lottery, the ultimate game of chance, and someday your luck will run out. Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king.

Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She'd always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

Things have a way of falling into place.

Falling in love has nothing to do with time. It can take a year, or an instant. It happens when its ready to happen.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

I think things happen between people for a reason.

Bright light. You've always found your way.

Can't choose where you come from, Seth. My boys and you know that better than anyone. But you can choose where you end up, and how you get there.

Mrs. G: But marriage? I had mine. I had my Charlie. My one. Laurel: Do you believe that? That there's one person? One? Mrs. G: I do, for some of us. For others, if things don't work, or you lose someone, there's another. But for some there's the one, beginning to end. No one else can fit. No one else gets into the heart the same way, and lives there.

You're the answer before I even asked the question.

Destiny has more than one road.

It was different with Seth, Anna went on. Right from the first minute, everything about him pulled at me. I couldn't stop it. I tried, but I couldn't. I've thought about that, and I believe, sincerely, that my feelings for him were there, just there, even before I met him. We were meant to be part of each other's lives. He was meant to be part of this family, and this family was meant to be mine.

Do you believe in reincarnation? ... I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again.

My mother said once that we were all hers already. We just hadn't found each other before.

Heaven and Earth, Ripley, do more than hold us between them. They expect us to deserve it.