Quotes About Destiny

Only when people are free to worship, create, and build, only when they can decide their destiny and benefit from their own risks—only then do societies become dynamic, prosperous.

Life, John Lennon famously said, is what happens to you while you're making other plans. Now that I think of it, Lennon, that wizard of words and music, probably wasn't the first. There's an old Yiddish proverb, "Man plans and God laughs." Probably every culture has a virtually identical aphorism.

When the people decide to live, Destiny will obey, Darkness will disappear And chains will be broken.

Sometimes you hit the jackpot and sometimes the jackpot hits you, I guess.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.

Why not simply surrender to one's doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?

If God is never happy what chance of happiness is there for us?

Are we not all creatures of chance?

Tak, ludo?ercy i misjonarze s? dla siebie stworzeni.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn't experience all that they might have.. - by the river piedra i sat down and wept

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

The warrior who trusts his path doesn't need to prove the other is wrong.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts? the boy asked. Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Maktub (It is written.)