Quotes About Fate

What you thought was a maze of choices, all the possibilities of what your life might become, was, in fact, a series of steps you took along a road, and when you reached your destination and looked back, only one path—the one chosen for you—was visible.

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

BY THE 1890s the Astor estate, comprising the assets of both cousins, was worth about $200 million. In the 1930s the historian Burton J. Hendrick called it "the world's greatest monument to unearned increment…a first mortgage on Fate itself.

You are blessed with luck, small one', he told Harry. 'Rejoice and give thanks - - someone wants you dead.

Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing

You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.

Nadie que busque realmente encuentra. La búsqueda es producto de la neurosis. Los encuentros, en cambio, son producto de una ley universal que rige cada movimiento y nos conduce hacia donde tenemos que ir. Nada

qué me ves puto», era cosa de mala suerte o de tiempo. «¿Y de qué murió?». «Lo mataron porque vio feo a alguien». «Bueno, entonces es su culpa. ¿A

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

He looked at me the way the male spider gazes at his beloved. He knows he's going to get eaten afterwards, but it'll be worth it. "Deal," he said.

I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn't work if you push it.

the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn't work if you push it.

He looked at me the way the male spider gazes at his beloved. He knows he's going to get eaten afterwards, but it'll be worth it.

If from the beginning you always believed that a ticket was only one-way, then you wouldn't have to try so vainly to cling to the sand like an oyster to a rock.

Of course, a story always begins with such a coincidence.

Don't put it off, don't wait too long. When we truly commit ourselves to a spiritual path and practice, something in Reality rises up to support us. The destiny of what we're designed to be becomes real, and the fate of unconscious behaviors is avoided. Or, even if not avoided, our mistakes become learning experiences, blessed by some invisible Mercy. As Yunus Emre said, "Ever since the glance of the mature fell upon me, nothing has been a misfortune." (p. 5)

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Vanquish enemies at arms . . . Gain mastery of the sciences And varied arts . . . You may do all this, but karma's force Alone prevents what is not destined And compels what is to be.

Ach, meine Liebe, seien Sie nicht zu dogmatisch in Ihrer Verachtung für das starke Geschlecht. Wer weiß, wenn Ihnen nur der Richtige über den Weg läuft …

Vieles kann geschehen. Auch das Unverhoffte.

Succeed or die. Either we stop the Apocalypse, or we're caught right in the middle of it.", FADE by Kailin Gow