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Quotes About Fate

An enlightened being no longer believes he is a body. The body belongs to Nature, not to him, and so its fate is of no importance. He is One with everything. He sees Goodness everywhere. He is bathed in divine Light. He has become All-Mind.
~ Tim Freke
Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.
~ Don Mattingly
Nobody knows what the future holds.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
~ Gary Kemp
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
~ Ellis Peters
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If things are destined to happen, big directors will notice me and work will come my way.
~ Sana Khan
God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.
~ Justin Tuck
If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.
~ George Saunders
You remember how it feels, don't you? All that desire scorching you straight through. Feeling like you're penned up in a small-town cage, jailed by cornstalk bars. Knowing, just knowing, that you'll be stuck in that quiet little town forever if you don't take a chance.
~ Norman Partridge
I think it was Denoon who said that the closest you can come in life to experiencing free will is when you do things at random. There is no free will. Everything is still determined when you make random choices, but you stop noticing.
~ Norman Rush
I do not worry too much; if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Don't worry," Milo replied; "I'll just wrap one up for later," and he folded his napkin around "EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST.
~ Norton Juster
But now he was little more than a whimpering oyster led to be devoured on the sands of a Southern sea by the artful walrus, Circumstance, and the implacable carpenter, Fate.
~ O. Henry
little more than a whimpering oyster led to be devoured on the sands of a Southern sea by the artful walrus, Circumstance, and the implacable carpenter, Fate.
~ O. Henry
True adventurers have never been plentiful. They who are set down in print as such have been mostly business men with newly invented methods. They have been out after the things they wanted - golden fleeces, holy grails, lady loves, treasures, crowns, and fame. The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. A fine example was the Prodigal Sob - when he started back home.
~ O. Henry
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. A fine example was the Prodigal Son — when he started back home.
~ O. Henry
Tell me how you die and I will tell you who you are.
~ Octavio Paz
Para realizarse, el amor necesita quebrantar la ley del mundo. En nuestro tiempo el amor es escándalo y desorden, transgresión: el de dos astros que rompen la fatalidad de sus órbitas y se encuentran en la mitad del espacio.
~ Octavio Paz
El amor es escándalo, desorden, transgresión: el de dos astros que rompen la fatalidad de sus órbitas y se encuentran en la mitad del espacio.
~ Octavio Paz
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
~ Olive Schreiner
What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength.
~ Oprah Winfrey