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Quotes About Fate

He'd been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I'd always
~ Gregory David Roberts
his struggle there to love and to be loved in return, and his drag-footed walk along the shoreline of his Fate are the fragments of his shipwreck survival.
~ Gregory David Roberts
If the fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.
~ Gregory David Roberts
the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The ancient Sanskrit legends speak of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and enrapture one another. The legends say that the loved one is instantly recognized because she's loved in every gesture, every expression of thought, every movement, every sound, and every mood that prays in her eyes. The legends say that we know her by her wings—the wings that only we can see—and because wanting her kills every other desire of love.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The cloud-mottled night seemed full of signs and portents, as if fate itself was warning me to go or daring me to stay.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Khader aveva cercato di spiegarmi che ogni uomo ha la possibilita di cambiare il proprio destino. Avevo sempre pensato che il fatto fosse immutabile: determinato al momento della nascita e fisso come le orbite delle stelle. All'improvviso compresi che la vita e molto piu bella e complessa. La verita e che fortuna e sfortuna non contano, e non importa cio che stai facendo: puoi cambiare completamente la tua vita con un solo pensiero, con un solo gesto d'amore.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and needless complicities such as those.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I'd always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one-half of a great love that wasn't meant to be.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate needs accomplices
~ Gregory David Roberts
Nadie llore de forma más profunda o patética que la otra mitad de un gran amor que no está destinado a ser real. Nothing weeps more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
~ Gregory Maguire
Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.
~ Gregory Maguire
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
~ Angela Carter
It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
~ James Altucher
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
~ Carl Sandburg
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.
~ Lemmy
Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.
~ Robert Orben
I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.
~ Al Alvarez
Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.
~ Dick Cavett