Quotes About Fate

Yeah, but where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

their tendency to dutifully follow a script written before they were born.

So there I am, wondering what to do, and I see you, and I see what you're carrying. And _that_ is why I came running after you. Because I do not believe in coincidence.

The fucking angels of memory were out. They had come out of their museums, out of their castles. They'd gone to war against whatever this incoming to-come was. The very facts of retrospection and fate that had various sides fighting were now out themselves, personified or apotheosed and smacking seven bells out of each other directly No longer solely reasons, justifications, teloi, casus belli for others to invoke or believe in: now combatants. The war had just got meta.

where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn

But you no longer heard the song. You had gone away, my boy, into your tale. Did you know that you would never turn into a fish, that you would never reach Issyk-Kul, or see the white ship, or say to it: "Hello, white ship, it's I"? You swam away.

Bir insan?n kaderi, da?daki patika gibidir: bazen ç?kar, bazen iner, bazen de dibi görünmeyen bir uçurumun ba??na gelip durur.Insan tek ba??na böyle bir yolda ilerleyemez ama birle?enler, birbirine omuz verenler her engeli a?arlar.

But a man cannot remain indifferent to the world around him; it worries him and torments him to think that he could be happier somewhere else, and that he is where he is simply through a mistake of fate

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree--the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?

The fates are cruel," Bheeshma whispered, "and they've been crueler than usual to you. But the sins you committed in ignorance are not your fault." "I'll still have to pay for them," Karna said. "Isn't that how karma works? Look at what happened to Pandu, who killed a sage by accident, thinking him to be a wild deer. He had to bear the consequences of it for the rest of his life.

Most of all, I understood that things happen to us for many complicated reasons, arising from both the past and the future.

It's hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines. They're as difficult to disentangle as love and sorrow.

But when I see Sudha, her face bright with a simple, generous joy, the walls I'd set up so carefully collapse around me like a house of cards. Inside my heart it feels like a wet, new rain. In spite of all my insecurities, in spite of the oceans that'll be between us soon and the men that are between us already, I can never stop loving Sudha. It's my habit, and it's my fate.

They say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. Their gaze is a rope of gold binding each to the other. Even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. They can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again.

Love comes like lightning , and disappears the same way.. If you are lucky it strickes you right..

Love comes like lightning , and disappears the same way.. If you are lucky it strikes you right..

Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you?

The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.

As for being pawns," Krishna was saying, "aren't we all pawns in the hands of Time, the greatest player of them all?