Quotes About Fate

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The next day the sorcerer, tied to the tail of a savage mule loaded with nuts, was broken into as many pieces as there were nuts upon the mule's back.[1]

The image he bears decides his destiny.

I knew that not all lives are equal, that the time we live in affects the person we are, more than I had ever thought. Some have a harder chance. Some get no chance at all. With great sadness, I saw so many people born in the wrong time to be happy.

I have a randezvous with life.

the impossible happens once to each of us

You have the luck of a comedian. Bad luck in things that don't matter. Good luck in things that do.

Maybe you can go through your whole life and never meet them, and think love is all these other things, but if you do meet them, God help you! Because then: ka-blam! You're screwed.

What if one day you meet someone, Arthur, and it feels like it could never be anyone else? Not because other people are less attractive, or drink too much, or have issues in bed, or have to alphabetize every fucking book or organize the dishwasher in some way you just can't live with. It's because they aren't this person.

Fate, that glockenspiel, will turn upon the hour.

There is an old Arabic story about a man who hears Death is coming for him, so he sneaks away to Samarra. And when he gets there, he finds Death in the market, and Death says, "You know, I just felt like going on vacation to Samarra. I was going to skip you today, but how lucky you showed up to find me!" And the man is taken after all.

Just when we lose hope and believe life to be chaos, fate provides a pattern

The full story is what you get told only if and when your work, and with it your existence, are no longer required.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not.

You reap what you sow.

should be paid to the unlikelihood of

one's ability to believe in the notion that two souls which stir in the universe may be destined to meet and may be meant only for each other?

Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.