Quotes About Destiny

Let whatever mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.

I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

was twenty-two, the same age she was when she'd been pregnant with me. She was going to leave my life at the same moment that I came into hers, I thought.

The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. I

The question about who you will love and when you will love him is out of your hands. It's a mystery that you can't solve.

life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we're all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. I really did have only one boot.

And in the meanwhile, cultivate an understanding of a bunch of the other things that the best, sanest people on the planet know: that life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we're all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.

I suppose this is what I mean when I say we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives.

that life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we're all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.

That we must help ourselves. That after destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.

we must help ourselves. That after destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives. We can choose to fling our kids into the grass or we can take deep breaths and walk up and down the hall.

When I was done writing it, I understood that things happened just as they were meant to. That I couldn't have written my book before I did. I simply wasn't capable of doing so, either as a writer or a person. To get to the point I had to get to to write my first book, I had to do everything I did in my twenties.

mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.

Every life, Tranströmer writes, "has a sister ship," one that follows "quite another route" than the one we ended up taking.

Tiny bumps in time shape our lives, even though we spend hours trying to make long-term plans.

When you lose something, don't think of it as a loss. Accept it as a gift that gets you on the path you were meant to travel on"

A story that fate left incomplete

Of course, critics asked what a novelist was doing on the serious editorial page. After all, I was no intellectual with grey hair. I couldn't answer them. They were probably right at some level. However, this was destiny. This was meant to happen.

of timing. Also, who on earth says 'good name' these

Con Usted al lado, todo es el mejor destino

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate My sole mate is my soul mate.