Quotes About Destiny

Was sein soll, muß geschehen, und was sein sollte, das geschah.

A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Perhaps she is right, that there is no reason to suffering, no fair dealing when it comes to meting out bliss and pain. There are just choices, and the echoes of those choices.

My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys.

And why urge people to make an effort in this or that direction if everything, including the effort or its absence, is determined?

Charise Mericle Harper

At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

the twelve royal gifts of birth belong to every child, born anywhere, at anytime" -

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

If God's so good, why didn't he give you a jump shot?

Your whole life is a chain of choices- your choices

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)

Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.