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Quotes About Destiny

When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.
~ Helen Mirren
Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
~ John Bunyan
And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there
~ Charles Kingsley
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
~ Sylvester Stallone
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
~ Conrad Aiken
But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...
~ Sanhita Baruah
It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
A million coincidences had to occur in order for you to exist
~ Dan Howell and Phil Lester
Well, honey, everybody has to die sometime.
~ Wendell Berry
You see, we don't have enough sense to make these decisions. Somehow, you just get led to where you're supposed to be, if you're willing to submit.
~ Wendell Berry
But in his dream he knew their way was prepared, and in their time they would rise up joyful.
~ Wendell Berry
And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.
~ Wendell Berry
His life has never rested on anything he has known beforehand — none of it. He chose it before he knew it, and again afterwards.
~ Wendell Berry
She cared for him without hope, because she had passed the place of turning back or looking back. Quietly, almost submissively, she propped herself against him, because in her fate and faith she was opposed to his ruin.
~ Wendell Berry
Part of the pleasure has to do with a sense of efficiency, of materials exactly allocated and completely used. Another part has to do with a sense of inevitability, the feeling that someone knew where we were headed all along, even if we and the characters did not.
~ Wendy Lesser
Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.
~ Wendy Mass
I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.
~ Wendy Mass
Whereever you end up; Jack whispered into my ear.I wish you clear skies. Always
~ Wendy Mass
If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?
~ Wendy McClure
Maybe with good luck we'll find what eluded us in the places we once called home.
~ Wes Anderson
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up with you. Thank God.
~ Whitney Otto
but death is the ultimate purpose of life.
~ Wilbur Smith