Quotes About Destiny

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

Lord, let me live until I die.

No escape--like life itself.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

But any story about human beings is bound to have an end, like this story about us, a pair of ingenuous people who fell in love and went journeying together through life, blundering by good luck in the right directions so that we came to a lasting wholeness and joy in each other. It has happened before; it will happen again; it happened to us. We belonged together.

Wij zijn als regendruppels die, tegen het raam van een voortrazende trein geblazen, met kleine rukjes verder kruipen; niemand kan precies voorspellen welke weg ze zullen volgen, al komen ze op den duur wel allemaal aan de rand van het glas terecht, om te vervloeien en te verdwijnen.

God does not hinder the exercise of human freedom but rather anticipates its consequences.

When the destinies of the world are at stake, there comes a point at which private esteem and admiration must give way to the sense of public duty.

all we have is "on loan" from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus,

According to Epictetus, we should keep firmly in mind that we are merely actors in a play written by someone else—more precisely, the Fates. We cannot choose our role in this play, but regardless of the role we are assigned, we must play it to the best of our ability.

we are merely actors in a play written by someone else—more

remember that all we have is "on loan" from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

A man that's neither born to wealth, nor place, But to the mere despite of Fortune's brow, Though, peradventure, well endowed with grace Of stature, form, and other gifts enough, Submits himself unto a servile yoke, And is content to wear a livery cloak.

No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

Turn away no more.Why wilt thou turn away?The starry floor,The wat'ry shoreIs giv'n thee till the break of day.