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Quotes About Destiny

From the time we're born and until we die. We spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives. So where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
We aren't born good or bad. Maybe we're born with tendencies either way, but its the way we live your life that matters.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Your dreams are not lost, they are merely waiting for you to return to them.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
lovers will come and go. Most of them are going to break your heart. But there's always that one that is perfect for you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. "You only get one life. Live it to the fullest.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
We all take different paths in life. But its the way you live your life that matters.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Life is about decisions. So whatever you decide. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Perhaps I have reason to believe that I had somewhere else to be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I am not what has happen to me, I am what I choose to become.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
you can't find love it will find you. You are young still and you can never give up on love no matter how old you get because love never grows old
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Do your thing. You're different accept you for who you are, and become who you're destined to be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
There is only, one love, one heart and one destiny.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives that we're meant to understand. And sometimes it's because it was meant for you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Today can be the best time of your life or the worst time of your life. The choice is yours.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sometimes, just believe and let your heart lead you to where you need to be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I believe in Love, and I know I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Without a larger measure of consciousness, we cannot begin to struggle with fate. We rather remain its prisoner. It behooves all of us to look at the prevalent patterns of our lives and ask what "story" they might be serving.
~ James Hollis
Of each critical juncture of choice, one may usefully ask, "Does this path enlarge or diminish me?" Usually, we know the answer to the question. We know it intuitively, instinctively, in the gut. Choosing the path that enlarges is always going to mean choosing the path of individuation. The gods want us to grow up, to step up to that high calling that each soul carries as its destiny.
~ James Hollis
Fate is what is given to us; destiny is what we are summoned to become. In the interplay of the two, human character plays a role. Hubris, or the fantasy that we know enough to know enough, seduces us toward choices that lead to unintended consequences. Hamartia, the failure to see clearly enough, to see humbly enough, is a lens through which we imperfectly envision the world, unavoidably distorting and reductive, but convincing at the moment nonetheless.
~ James Hollis PhD
So, then, now you know your task: to become what the gods want, not what your parents want, not what your tribe wants, but what the gods want, and what your psyche will support if consciousness so directs.
~ James Hollis, Ph.D.
It was not true that all men killed the things they loved. What was true was that all things killed the men who loved them. Which, after all, was as it should be.
~ James Jones
He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.
~ James Joyce
The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.
~ James Joyce
He would never swing the thurible before the tabernacle as priest. His destiny was to be elusive of social or religious orders. The wisdom of the priest's appeal did not touch him to the quick. He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world.
~ James Joyce