Quotes About Destiny

If you are born on the edge of a barrel of shit, you have to accept the likelihood of falling into it now and then.

What a shame it is that a philosopher cannot accept what might befall any man.

The place you are right now God circled on a map for you.

The long arm of coincidence.

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Nenorocirile vin cu gramada, in timp ce norocul calatoreste intotdeauna signur, spuneau oamenii in vechime.

A hero, he'd once heard, was a person caught in the right place at the wrong t

Somewhere on earth there is a door reserved for each soul, and one day each of us will walk through that door never to return to this life again. Where that door is and when we will walk through it are unknowns we must live with and prepare for. Upon death, all of this -- this whole world and all of its charms and occupations -- will become as if it were all a dream.

I know Tiger believed in the idea of the Package. It went along with the sense of destiny his father had passed to him- that he was put on this earth to do something extraordinary with his special qualities, to "let the legend grow" But those qualities, foremost among them an extraordinary ability to focus and stay calm under stress, also included selfishness, obsessiveness, stubbornness, coldness, ruthlessness, pettiness, and cheapness." (132)

No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.

If it Will it Will

Deification of accidents serves of course as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Partly as a result of vivid allegorical readings of Homer, the grotto of the nymphs in the Odyssey gets cosmologically extended in meaning, as in the De antro nympharum of Plotinus's student Porphyry, where cos- mos and cave exist for each other. The one is the symbolon of the other, and man is the tertium, who is prevented by temptation and gentle force from reaching his cave-transcending destiny.

Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.

Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

They had failed to understand that there was no such thing as private life in wartime Germany. No amount of reticence could change the fact that every individual German belonged to the generality of Germans and must share in the general destiny of Germany, even as more and more bombs were falling on the just and unjust alike.

Pech ist heute nur noch die Würze des Glücks!

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

the mysterious character of providence, which does not stop at simply steering things "in general", but precisely pursues the individual, that which is distinguished from everything else, and dwells in the whole confusing particularity of the world.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.