Top 100 Quotes About Fate And Destiny
#2. Love is like this, Faye thinks now. We love people because they love us. It's narcissistic. It's best to be perfectly clear about this and not let abstractions like fate and destiny muddle the issue. Peggy, after all, could have picked any boy in the school.
Nathan Hill
#3. Our fate and destiny is in our hands. Blaming others for our failures is wrong because we can independently choose our circumstances. Wake up, smell the coffee and roll up your sleeves.
Boniface Kamau Zablon
#4. We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.
Peter Fenton
#5. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway.
Kiersten White
#6. Fate and destiny go hand in hand. It is impossible to change our destiny. Only the path upon which we walk to reach our destination alters. If we should stray from that path, fate will take control and guide us in the right direction.
J.A. Belfield
#7. Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
Steven Spielberg
#8. Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.
Michael Meade
#9. It's all about fate and destiny, and opening the right door at the right time, and having the guts to walk through it. It's amazing how everything changes in the blink of an eye.
Danielle Steel
#10. I guess I liked the idea that ... well, that there might be some kind of larger meaning to life or whatever. My mother was into that. She had a nonreligious spiritual side to her, if that makes any sense. She believed in the idea of fate and destiny. An interconnectedness and purpose in life.
Jessica Park
#11. Whether fate and destiny really exist, the only thing I can do is enjoy the present and live as honorably as possible.
Christopher Paolini
#12. The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'
Cate Blanchett
#13. Fuck fate and David's fatalism. I was going to make destiny my bitch.
Jaye Wells
#14. I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for good but sometimes we have to accept, the timing isn't right.
Nikki Rowe
#15. Fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle ... - Natalie Merchant,
R.J. Palacio
#16. Three grey women walk with me
Fate and Grief and Memory.
My fate brought grief; my grief must be
With me through Eternity,
Such thy power, memory.
Three grey women walk with me.
Adelaide Crapsey
#17. Daniel's voice brushed along my cheek like dark feathers, like a long night wind coming down from some far mountain. Take what you want and pay for it, says God.
Tana French
#18. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck
Sanhita Baruah
#19. Somewhere, someone is search for the pieces of you that mold well with theirs.
Nikki Rowe
#21. Remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. Cummings
#22. Nd when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.
Laini Taylor
#23. Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
Howard Thurman
#24. The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.
Ted Chiang
#25. I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.
Cilla Black
#26. Destiny is when you forgive your past and accept your fate.
Patricia Dille
#27. And did with sighs their fate deplore,
Since I must shelter them no more;
And if before my joys were such,
In having heard, and seen too much,
My grief must be as great and high,
When all abandoned I shall be,
Doomed to a silent destiny.
Aphra Behn
#28. You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey
Henri Barbusse
#29. There but for the... good choices I've made, genetics, psychological conditioning, and 10K random elements, go I.
Daniel Ionson
#30. Everything is destined sometimes we think something and happens opposite to it. This is the fact and the truth we all live with this verity. We are all the tools of God uses us for its own purpose.
Sadashivan Nair
#31. The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.
Michelle Franklin
#32. People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the end fate or destiny is seen as taking its toll. People die, to use a commonly used phrase, 'when their number's up'.
Peter Dickens
#33. I have searched for my forehead to find a secret writing about my fate and I found no trace of destiny, but my very own decisions!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.
Jeanette Winterson
#36. The beauty he saw in her was the beauty she forgot to see in herself and what a beautiful reminder, that love is what will see us all through.
Nikki Rowe
#37. It seemed to him that there was a scarlet thread running through the fabric of life, one that joined events across the years, piercing human hearts and plunging underground, only to reemerge without warning, a thread connecting lives and sometimes dates.
Douglas Wynne
#38. We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
Douglas Coupland
#39. Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
Gregory David Roberts
#40. Most people never think beyond their birth. But if I had contented myself with everyone else's opinions of me, I wouldn't be the man I am today. People like us make our own destinies, Gwenwhyfar - and to the waves with the naysayers who oppose us.
Jennifer McKeithen
#43. Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
Alex Haley
#44. Matteo lived inside her like a memory that paradoxically stopped the pain and which she could never get enough of ... because there was, and never would be, anything that was like him. Wherever she went, whatever she did, he was the only thing she truly loved, and which she sadly no longer had.
Llarjme
#45. Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.
Joe Budden
#46. No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#47. We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings ...
Charles W. Chesnutt
#49. Yeah, I'm listenin'," Morganith answered, "and Arda once told me pregnant Alteri women can see what might come to pass, not what will come to pass. What they see is just what people chose to do of their own shitty free will, not what they were forced to do by some gods.
Ash Gray
#50. He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.
Nikki Rowe
#51. I don't believe the idea of Fate is that everything in our lives is predetermined. For me, it's those moments when, on reflection, Life seems to have intervened and given us a friendly or not-so-friendly nudge in another direction.
Thea Euryphaessa
#52. I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.
Ellis Peters
#53. If life's journey was intended to be easy, we would have been given directions. However, since we have no road map, we must climb the highest mountain and forge the deepest streams with love in our souls, in the hope that our own journey will give us peace within...
Virginia Alison
#54. If you have the understanding to first notice the signs, continue with the courage to follow them.
Nikki Rowe
#55. I have been capable of some mischief in the past. I know what rebellion feels like. Everyone and everything is provided with a destiny, but there is no obligation whatsoever to fulfill it. Some just prefer to ignore the humming of their soul.
E.A.A. Wilson
#56. Destiny is not a matter of fate, it is a matter of choice, and we have some choices to be made here.
Mario Gonzalez
#57. The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
Janet Morris
#58. To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
Idries Shah
#59. Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.
Wilbur Smith
#60. I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.
Angelina Jolie
#61. Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that the poet in New Wye and the thug in New York awoke that morning at the same crushed beat of their Timekeeper's stopwatch.
Vladimir Nabokov
#62. I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry Rollins
#63. To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."
Anthony De Mello
#64. It's always easy to look back and see where you could've played the hand differently once all the cards are on the table.
Lily Gardner
#65. Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
Horace
#66. A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.
Haruki Murakami
#67. If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.
Hermann Hesse
#68. No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny.
John Steinbeck
#69. Even the dry and dusty arid desert air could not get her sweet perfume out of his nostrils. That one night was all it took. She stole his heart; he could do nothing about it, but accept his fate.
Virginia Alison
#70. I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into a passion so rare, that I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be.
Nikki Rowe
#71. It was electric and we couldn't deny it anymore, even when our words spoke different the energy we drew from each-other spoke too loud, it was almost impossible to ignore.
Nikki Rowe
#73. First, the thoughts are chosen,
then the prayers are spoken.
The candles are lit,
then the plea is submitted.
But soon after you move away,
there is wax;
melting, adulterating and braiding-
a new constellation up on your blanks.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#74. ( ... ) he walked away understanding, ( ... ) how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made ... on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do.
Philip Roth
#76. circumstances and destiny together play role to our foundation
Sadashivan Nair
#77. But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
William Shakespeare
#78. Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it.
Donna Tartt
#79. Since I was a little girl, I believed I was a child of destiny, and if that is true, Richard Burton was surely my fate.
Elizabeth Taylor
#80. My father quoted everyone, from Shakespeare to Emerson, on the subject of destiny, and then he'd point out that except for the Greeks, everyone agreed: The stars do fuck-all for us; you must make your own way.
Amy Bloom
#81. Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.
Darren Johnson
#82. On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.
Robert Breault
#83. I'm not sure if fate or destiny is real. But I can
tell you that sometimes the very thing you've been hoping for will walk through the door, determined
to fend you off. And still, somehow, you will find that you are enough.
Kiera Cass
#84. They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.
Orison Swett Marden
#85. It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn't change back. One second.
Dennis Lehane
#86. I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.
Henry Samueli
#87. But how can I let him just walk away with a smile on my face and a slap on his back when every cell in my body is tied painfully to him, and I can't breathe when I think of him being away from me?!
Llarjme
#88. Destiny changes, Fate changes, just believe in your inner self, your dreams and your strength
Anamika Mishra
#91. I asked the universe for serendipity and you walked through my door.
Nikki Rowe
#92. Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.
Majid Kazmi
#93. Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
Mario Puzo
#94. Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.
Daniel Abraham
#95. Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#96. 'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.
Carlton Cuse
#97. Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!
John McLeod
#98. I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.
Nelson Mandela
#99. The way two people can and everything place, find each other in a crowd, and change your life the lives of the people around them forever ... It makes you believe in fate. In fate love some extra authority. Some destined significance. Wow, very powerful.
Deb Caletti
#100. And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do.
Robert Beatty
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