Quotes About Fate

And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was as if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was faith that kept all these good things coming our way, only I thought she said fate, because she couldn't pronounce the th sound in faith. And later, I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

I looked at her and saw she was crying. And I also began to cry again, that this was our fate, to live like two turtles seeing the watery world together from the bottom of the little pond.

And later, I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. i found out the most I could have was hope, and with that I was not denying any possibility, good or bad.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.

What's the point?" I say. "There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying." "Because you must," she says. "This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.

It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn

Our meeting each other could not possibly be as random as two leaves from two trees being blown together.

Sí, vi los signos, pero me limité a dejar que las cosas sucedieran. Y pienso que el destino está formado a medias por las expectativas y a medias por la falta de atención. Pero, de algún modo, cuando pierdes algo que amas, interviene la fe. Tienes que prestar atención a lo que has perdido. Tienes que deshacer la expectativa.

And in my family, there were two pillars of beliefs: Christian faith on my father's side, Chinese fate on my mother's. Picture these two ideologies as you might the goalposts of a soccer field, faith at one end, fate at the other, and me running between them trying to duck whatever dangerous missile had been launched in the air.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

This was not chance that they met twice, my mother would tell me whenever she recounted this story. It was fate.

And so fate—if you can call it that—changed course over the rainforest canopy, and kindnesses and miracles poured like quenching rain after a drought. Such is the nature of happy endings.

Fate once made you American. Fate took it away.

What happened to Violet was terrible, and I'm not saying fate happens without blame. But when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.

Malraux says art is our rebellion against man's fate. La condition humaine is what I have never accepted. That is why I tried to create my own world.

La fatalité se déplace: plus l'homme prend conscience de lui-même, plus il là découvre intérieure.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

The longer I live, the more certain I am that there are no accidents in life. There are no chance meetings; everything happens according to a plan, regularly and in order.

There is not enough luck in the world. That night I got somebody's share.

Daarna gaf ik me maar over aan mijn lot, wat bijna altijd het beste is wat je kunt doen.