Quotes About Destiny

You can learn to be what you've always been," the wizard said, "if you've the gift of knowing. But you can't learn from whence you came 'til you learn where you're going.

Count no man happy until his death, for no one knows what the gods have in store for him.

In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides.

you met this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides. What other creature in God's wide domain would carry the memory

Colonel Fedmahn Kassad knew only that all the great passions of a passionate life had led him to this place and to this moment, and if death awaited him here, then so be it. And if love and glory and a victory that would make Valhalla quake awaited, then so be it.

The universe is indifferent to our fates.

Sol! Take your daughter, your only daughter Rachel, whom you love, and go to the world called Hyperion and offer her there as a burnt offering at one of the places of which I shall tell you.

Or the king could die. Or the horse could die. Or he could teach the horse how to talk.

We are created precisely for this type of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides.

Las Parcas crearon e inicialmente controlaron el artefacto físico conocido como Alcaudón.

A lesser light asked Ummon Are there multiple futures> Ummon answered Does a dog have fleas>]

Sol! Take your daughter, your only daughter Rachel, whom you love, and go to the world called Hyperion and offer her there as a burnt offering at one of the places of which I shall tell you." And

The voice, sounding more than ever to Sol like some cut-rate holie director's shallow idea of what God's voice should sound like, came again: "Sol! You must listen well. The future of humankind depends upon your obedience in this matter. You must take your daughter, your daughter Rachel whom you love, and go to the world called Hyperion and offer her there as a burnt offering at one of the places of which I shall tell you." And

Just as well," he said. "We have one deus ex machina too many as it is.

I have a friend, said Baedecker, who said that there might be places of power. She thinks we could do worse than to spend our lives searching for them. What do you think?

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made

From Carl Jung: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate." —

Either all of us are accidents of history or none of us are.

Could Have" by the Polish Nobel Laureate Wis?awa Szymborska: "It could have happened. / It had to happen. / It happened earlier. Later. / Nearer. Farther off. / It happened, but not to you." The poet goes on to contemplate the nature of luck. "You were in luck—there was a forest. / You were in luck—there were no trees. / You were in luck—a rake, a hook, a beam, a brake, / a jamb, a turn, a quarter-inch, an instant.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.

The best of men cannot defend their fate: the good die early, the bad die late.

seguir el camino de nuestra perdición por nuestra propia elección.

And, young man," said he, "depend upon it, if you do not go back, wherever you go, you will meet with nothing but disasters and disappointments, till your father's words are fulfilled upon you.