Quotes About Destiny

We all have it comin', kid

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Our stars weren't meant for their sky. We have never known the same horizon.

Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.

My daddy always said, 'Luck never gives, it lends

They who await no gifts from chance, conquer fate.

To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. —EDWARD GIBBON,

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Ich glaube nicht, dass wir geboren werden mit einem vorherbestimmten Weg und einem bekannten Ende. Vielmehr sind wir das Ergebnis unserer eigenen Handlungen, die wiederum beeinflußt werden von dem, was das Leben gegen uns unternimmt. Die Summe all dessen macht uns zu dem, was wir sind.

From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof' Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry ways to the shore. -Rumi

Es gibt im Leben nur drei große Ereignisse: den Tod, die Berühmtheit oder die Liebe. Mein lieber blauer Leutnant, welches von den dreien wird mir wohl als erstes auf den Kopf oder ins Herz fallen?

All things in the fulness of time

A man's character is his fate.

Character is our destiny.

Man's character is his fate.

Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate.

A man's character is his fate.

The living, though they yearn for consummation of their fate, need rest, and in their turn leave children to fulfil their doom.

It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things. ?? ?? ????? ???????? ????????

The luckiest men die worthwhile deaths

One's bearing shapes one's fate.

When they are born, they wish to live and to meet with their dooms - or rather to rest - and they leave children behind them to meet with their dooms in turn.

everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.