Quotes About Fate

Der Sturm klärt den trübsten Himmel auf. Nicht allein unser Charakter und noch weniger die Welt, in die wir hineingeboren werden, sind unser Schicksal. Im Hinterfragen und nicht im Glauben an eine Fügung finden wir Selbstvergewisserung.

When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, You've been lucky! That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.

Nl homin certum est. (Ovid

Levmur superstitine, lbermur mortis met. (Cicero Fin. 1.63:

Hom semper aliud, fortna aliud cgitat.

Su cuique mrs fingunt fortnam. (Cornelius Nepos

Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate.

We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go

My lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I have come to give you my life. My life for my people.' The Black Rabbit drew his claws along the floor. Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah,' he said. 'There is not a day or a night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be.

Some say that the Black Rabbit hates us and wants our destruction. But the truth is—or so they taught me—that he, too, serves Lord Frith and does no more than his appointed task

Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah, he said. There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be.

to be dead may be nothing, yet who relishes the business of dying?

Of course there's destiny, but destiny doesn't push you where you don't want to go. You're the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

What do you mean? You know the past and the future of all things. You know exactly where we're going!" He sighed. "Yeah. But I try not to think about it.

No hay errores. Los acontecimientos que atraemos nosotros, por a desagradables que sean, son necesarios para aprender lo que necesitamos aprender; todos los pasos que damos son necesarios para llegar a los sitios que hemos escogido.

The best we can do is live our highest right, gracefully as we can, and let the Principle of Coincidence take it from there.    Seven

You think just knowing about death will keep you from dying?

He's going to die, isn't he? Stebbins said. Sure, McVies answered. They've all been dying, didn't you know?

Sometimes the gods give you a break.

The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. They were very close now, almost touching, and then they went together and become one very large star. I don't know if things like that are fair or not.

Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.