Quotes About Destiny

What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.

Puisqu'après tant d'efforts ma résistance est vaine, Je me livre en aveugle au destin qui m'entraîne

Je suis venu vers vous sans savoir mon dessein : Mon amour m'entraînait ; et je venais peut-être Pour me chercher moi-même, et pour me reconnaître.

Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey . . .

The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.

She said she'd often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She'd spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you'd done in a past life you didn't need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn't be ready to do now.

When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. ... So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself.

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.

If there is another life he will find her there.

And the world goes on regardless of joy or despair or one woman!s fortune or one man!s loss. And we can!t know our own lives beyond the details we can manage. And the things that change us forever happen without us knowing they would happen.

And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere.

fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny.

Atlas, Atlas, Atlas. It's in my name, I should have known. My name is Atlas – it means 'the long suffering one'.