Quotes About Destiny

Most of all, I understood that things happen to us for many complicated reasons, arising from both the past and the future.

It's hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines. They're as difficult to disentangle as love and sorrow.

Perhaps we are always alone, from the time we leave the safety of our mothers' wombs until the time Waheguru gathers us to Himself.

They say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. Their gaze is a rope of gold binding each to the other. Even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. They can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again.

Love comes like lightning , and disappears the same way.. If you are lucky it strickes you right..

Love comes like lightning , and disappears the same way.. If you are lucky it strikes you right..

It is unfair that one person should suffer in order for others to be blessed. If the gods were powerful enough to shape our destinies, why couldn't they just send us a good fortune untainted by sorrow?

Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you?

The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.

As for being pawns," Krishna was saying, "aren't we all pawns in the hands of Time, the greatest player of them all?

They say in the old tales that when a man and a woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. Their gaze is a rope of gold binding each to the other. Even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. They can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again.

Don't fret,' the bow said. 'You have many journeys in your future, some of which you'll wish you didn't have to undertake. And as for coming from somewhere far away, you, too, have done that.

aren't we all pawns in the hands of Time, the greatest player of them all?

For seven lifetimes will I follow you to the ends of the earth.

It added that I was no ordinary person but one with a complicated destiny. My great sacrifice, it indicated, would save the world. Or did it mean that I was the great sacrifice? The bow was often troublingly ambiguous. Once it told me I wasn't a woman at all. 'What am I, then?' 'A goddess, obviously.

The life that you're living today is only a bubble in the cosmic stream, shaped by the karma of other lifetimes. The one who is your husband in this birth was perhaps your enemy in the last, and he whom you may hate, may have been your beloved. Why weep for any of them, then?

Behold, we give you this girl, a gift beyond what you asked for. Take good care of her, for she will change the course of history.

The life that you're living today is only a bubble in the cosmic stream, shaped by the karma of other lifetimes. The one who is your husband in this birth was perhaps your enemy in the last, and he whom you hate may have been your beloved. Why weep for any of them, then?

And whether my lack of friends and visitors was due not to my father's strictness but due to people's wariness of someone who wasn't born like a normal girl and who, if the peophecy was correct, wouldn't live a normal woman's life.

There's always a connection, a reason because of which people enter your orbit, bristling with dark energy like a meteor intent on collision.

It's hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines.

In only a few hours, the ground turned red as though the skies had rained blood. What would happen by the end of the eighteen days?

Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.