Quotes About Fate

Las cosas podían haber sucedido de cualquier otra manera y, sin embargo, sucedieron así.

Qué quiere, señor cura. Ninguna sabe cuándo le va a llegar la hora. El amor y la muerte, a traición.

La vida era el peor tirano conocido. Cuando la vida le agarra a uno, sobra todo poder de decisión.

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.

It is known that the stars and cosmos abandoned Napolean when he abandoned Josefina. There is a universal cosmic law that there can only be one Spiritual Wife for each Master or cosmic hero. If he abandons his Spiritual Wife the stars and cosmos will abandon him.

No fim, tu morres. No fim do livro, tu morres. Assim mesmo, como se morre nos romances: sem aviso, sem razão, a benefício apenas da história que se quis contar. Assim, tu morres e eu conto. E ficamos de contas saldadas.

Agarro o que passa e quando consigo: são as coisas que vem ter comigo e não eu que vou ter com elas. [sobre a triste circunstância de uma personagem que tem poucas oportunidades na vida]

Não escolhi nada nem estou em situação de escolher. Agarro o que passa e quando consigo: são as coisas que vem ter comigo e não eu que vou ter com elas. [sobre a triste circunstância de uma personagem que tem poucas oportunidades na vida]

Few would argue that a simpler consciousness, no matter how harmonious, is preferable to a more complex one. While we might admire the serenity of the lion in repose, the tribesman's untroubled acceptance of his fate, or the child's wholehearted involvement in the present, they cannot offer a model for resolving our predicament. The order based on innocence is now beyond our grasp. Once the fruit is plucked from the tree of knowledge, the way back to Eden is barred forever.

If everything was determined by the common human condition, by social and cultural categories, and by chance, it would be useless to reflect on ways to make one's life excellent. Fortunately there is enough room for personal initiative and choice to make a real difference. And those who believe this are the ones with the best chance to break free from the grip of fate.

A major catastrophe that frustrates a central goal of life will either destroy the self, forcing a person to use all his psychic energy to erect a barrier around remaining goals, defending them against further onslaughts of fate; or it will provide a new, more clear, and more urgent goal: to overcome the challenges created by the defeat.

Yet we have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.

the love of fate corresponds to a willingness to accept ownership of one's actions, whether these are spontaneous or imposed from the outside. It is this acceptance that leads to personal growth, and provides the feeling of serene enjoyment which removes the burden of entropy from everyday life.

Chance and necessity are sole rulers of beings who are incapable of reflection.

And what will be their fate?" he asked. "Forgive me master, but I am curious to know, so that my heart may prepare itself." "Flesh without spirit," I said. "Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.

I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.

And send not to ask for whom the fucking bell tolls, because you're not going to like the answer.

To the naked eye death appears random. To the spiritually inclined it appears ordained.

Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift.

You see, whenever something unexpected or unthought of falls onto our path, it's always a stepping stone in a journey to a "place" that we have been thinking about, because in time and space, as you well know, there are no accidents

Your issues aren't random, they're by design. Divine design—yours.

What goes around comes around (as in your thoughts coming around into more of those things you don't like).

lives are chosen for the challenges they will likely present, or to flip this, for the dreams you will likely have.

You know, I never was your dream girl, was I? And you certainly weren't my dream guy. We just sort of drifted together. And you've got to know that if things had stayed the same and my dream guy had turned up—" "I would've been in the way." "And vice versa.