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Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most.
— Anthony Liccione
I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Lost in Time
You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?
— Jean Thompson, The Humanity Project
When you have something this good, you keep it. Forever. And that's all the magic there is to it.
— Nadège Richards, 5 Miles
Leave the talking for others and live by walking. Go, go and go extra mile and you will be a true owner of what belongs to you
— Israelmore Ayivor
The charming king of Arilland had fallen in love at first sight. There was no question he would soon take this beautiful stranger as his bride.Fate had brought them together. Destiny. It was intoxicating.
— Alethea Kontis, Enchanted
In your daily life, let your destined visions be farther than your gifted sight and your ultimate joy be vibrant than your demeaning worries. Think big, dream big.
— Israelmore Ayivor
A plan is the transport medium which conveys a person from the station of dreams to the destination of success. Goals are the transport fees.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance.
— Terry Pratchett, The Long War
It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.
— E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril
Is this my purpose?The clouds don't have a lot of answers.
— Cynthia Hand, Boundless
She had a destiny, and it was wonderful, every girl’s dream. Like Sleeping Beauty, awoken from a deep sleep by a charming vampire, Lena would have her very own fairy tale.
— Amber Belldene, Blood Entangled
Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
— H.A.L. Fisher, History of Europe: v. 1
In you is a formidable force that can bring the desired change you want in the world. Stop waiting for the perfect time, go to work now!
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in you your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
We are the unknown, he says, and you will join us.
— Andrew Crumey, The Secret Knowledge
My destiny plays with me in such a wayI feel I play with my destiny.
— Vivake Pathak, God and Destiny
We all are characters in a movie.
— Vivake Pathak, God and Destiny
What if I can’t be their hero? What if I’m destined to be the villain?~attributed to Harry Potter
— Jacquel Chrissy May, Harry Potter Redux
To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Loving you is no more a beautiful memory, but now just a pain,I cry and weep every time I walk down the memory lane,Your love always completed me in every sense as a whole,But now it’s just emptiness and sorrow in my heart that drains,Of all the people in the world, you choose me to be hurt,Of all the hearts in the world, you choose mine to break…Why did you leave me I ask myself every morning and dawn?Why my love was incomplete tell me why you were gone?A silence surrounds my heart and fills it again with despair,Oh this pain is just too much, and the damage beyond repair,Please come back baby, just come back and bring that old smile,Or just come to see me every once in a while,So my heart no more bleeds, and no more my soul aches,So I can be peaceful after my death, in my ashes and burnt flakes…
— Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?
Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey,Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every wayThoughts and memories never end but life does one day.Whole age passes by in wait of that old time to return,But those old days once gone, will never come back again,Rather we can just cherish them in the memories that burn,In the back of our mind and make us remember,How we used to be so crazy,In those old days…
— Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?
You know me. I'll hurt you. Welcome home.
— Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.
— Kofi Annan
A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’,Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness and sorrow…I loved the way it felt being with him, for I felt up above,Now everything was complete and nothing remained hollow…That person who cupid made me fall for, was a God descended from heavens,I loved him with all I had, a true heart and a pure soul…I thought I achieved the meaning of life, never did I felt so glad,But when he left me amidst a chaos, I had no one with me to console…I cried, it hurt, I wept and screamed, everyone called me ‘mad’,And still I wonder if in my life, that actually was his role…But a string still binds me to my past of untold vow,Some unsaid promises that linger between us even now,Although I don’t know where he went after that fateful day…I still try to convince myself every day, I know how,Each moment has been tough, each day a new challenge…Each hour passed as if it was my heart that always allowed,One more day to live without him, one more day to cherish…One more day to spend without the love of my life somehow,But he doesn’t know that one day, the girl herself would perish…Who loved him and lived each day of her life in his wait,For the man who never returned, for the man who wasn’t in her fate…
— Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?
[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.
— Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
Where are you, oh heart, which I loved from the start? Did you ever arrive? How long must we stay apart?
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory that was rightfully his. They were consubstantial: glory and the capsized world.
— Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.
— Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
There are only two roles of destiny 
—  make an impossible thing to be possible and make something possible to be impossible
We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last
— Israelmore Ayivor
No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Guiding Principles for Optimizing your God-given Talents
He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn’t realize it yet.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Portrait of His Obsession
It’s destiny; the stars have aligned perfectly to bring us together as friends. You cannot argue with what’s meant to be, once the stars have spoken, it is absolute,” he uttered, all smug and knowing. Shocked that he used the word destiny, I cocked my head and shot him a look—for the first time actually seeing Parker. He was pretty…too pretty to be a guy; streaky blond hair—as if each streak had been strategically placed—dark eyes, pale skin, and a charming smile that dimpled in one cheek. “Destiny has already found me, with a clearly marked path for my future,” I retorted. “Then you are doubly fortunate, to have it find you twice.” Parker smiled again, his eyes eerily piercing into mine. Parker and Danielle
— Deborah Ann
We have a need to control our destiny, but destiny is uncontrollable. We struggle against this paradox and embrace the journey. For those who are determined to be the masters of their own fate, they can change everything. They can push against the rules of the universe and strive to turn chaotic fate into order. They will look out at the heavens and shout I am in control, and the earth will shake underfoot.
— Logan Kain, The Dead Will Rise First
It seems to me that no matter whether you marry, settle down or live with a bird or not, certain ones simply have your number on them, like bombs in the war; and even if you don’t happen to like them all that much there’s nothing you can do about it — unless you’re prepared to spend a lifetime arguing fate out of existence, which you could probably do if you tried but I’m not the type.—Crust on Its Uppers, p. 87
— Derek Raymond
Katrina held Bram in her arms, speaking softly, reassuringly, as they approached baby Modoc.This was an important moment, a beginning, for she knew the boy would spend his life with animals, especially elephants, and the meeting was of utmost importance. Neither the elephant nor the baby said a word. All was quiet as they looked at each other. Mo’s small trunk wormed its way up, reaching to the baby. As Bram leaned over, his little hand pulled loose from Katrina’s grasp found its way down toward the trunk. A finger extended to meet the tip of the trunk. Bram’s expression was one of curiosity; he felt the wet tip, Modoc moved her “finger” all around Bram’s hand, sliding it across each finger and the palm. A big tickle grin spread across Bram’s face, Modoc did her elephant “chirp,” a tear glistened as it ran down Katrina’s face. All was well. The future had been written.
— Ralph Helfer, Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Then an odd thing happened. Britney put her finger on the ridge of the painted glass and rubbed it. It made a perfect noise. The kind of noise that goes on and on as a beautiful noise does once it has wrung the ear. It was the chord of the wild sea.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.
— Sharon Sant, Sky Song
Are we all just lightning rods for other people's destinies? Is that what it's all about
— Anthony McDonald, Getting Orlando
Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny.
— Steve Maraboli
Through all people, the Music of Love would pour, bringing light to the swords that sped through the darkness. And the light of their blades would lead the constellations to their destination.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
Your destiny has not been decided by others, but by you. Fate determines our choices; but our choices determine fate. You will carry it out because you choose to.
— J.R.C. Salter, Allison's Defeat
It’s destiny; the stars have aligned perfectly to bring us together as friends. You cannot argue with what’s meant to be, once the stars have spoken, it is absolute,” he uttered, all smug and knowing. Shocked that he used the word destiny, I cocked my head and shot him a look—for the first time actually seeing Parker. He was pretty…too pretty to be a guy; streaky blond hair—as if each streak had been strategically placed—dark eyes, pale skin, and a charming smile that dimpled in one cheek. “Destiny has already found me, with a clearly marked path for my future,” I retorted. “Then you are doubly fortunate, to have it find you twice.” Parker smiled again, his eyes eerily piercing into mine.
— Deborah Ann
How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it. [Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]
— J.R. Richard
Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.
— Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
Once my grandmother told me I needed to find God and I said, “Why don’t you just tell me where to look and save me the trouble?” I was dead serious. Faith, destiny, all the shit you can’t see, but yet people are so willing to take the leap. Not me.
— Renee Carlino, Sweet Thing
I was falling in love with her, and she was falling in love with me. It was fated, decided before any of us were born, and I hated it as much as I loved it. I could barely stand it. (Eric)
— Shannon A. Thompson, Minutes Before Sunset
Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
— Selena Kitt, Temptation
He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.
— George Rivorie
The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.
— Robert   Harris, Pompeii
Where Destiny sets its path,Fate shall follow...:
— Deborah Ann
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
When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.
— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
— Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds
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, Steel Breeze
Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.
— Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters
One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny.
— Dennis E. Adonis
It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.
— Jackie Kay
Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...
— Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.
— Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
She once told me of a night that fumed with escapes and was filled with bedsides reeking of ecstasy; she told me the stars cast not judgments, but blessings, knowing full well the disastrous outcomes of the deeds they cradled with the strings of their young hearts. She’d inhaled the night itself, those around her doing the same, and so all become one. No disharmony. No discordance. Nothing to shatter the cause; nothing to unearth the beauty. So as we together ascended that front porch, allowing the glow behind the blown-out windows and the odious steams plunder us from through the cracks...time forgot to distill us, and our steps became as silver as glass. I could no longer deny the boiling words of my blood: tonight would be the beginning of a very long road indeed.
— Dave Matthes, Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible.I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.
— Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters
Why have all the pieces joined together to create such a cruel fate?
— ichtys, Superior Cross #5
you can't change your destiny! but you can create your own destiny!
— Destiny
DestinyThe chicken I bought last night,Frozen,Returned to life,Laid the biggest egg in the world,And was awarded the Nobel Prize.The phenomenal eggWas passed from hand to hand,In a few weeks had gone all round the earth,And round the sunIn 365 days.The hen received who knows how much hard currency,Assessed in buckets of grainWhich she couldn’t manage to eatBecause she was invited everywhere,Gave lectures, granted interviews,Was photographed.Very often reporters insistedThat I too should poseBeside her.And so, having served artThroughout my life,All of a sudden I’ve attained to fameAs a poultry breeder.
— Marin Sorescu
O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul
It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life.
— Mark  Donnelly
We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Destiny
Nothing is certain,” he murmured. “The future is constantly changing, and no one can predict what happens next. We have the power to change our destiny, because fate is not set in stone, and we are always free to make a choice.
— Julie Kagawa, Iron's Prophecy
Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate.
— Shannon L. Alder
All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no man can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.
— Mircea Eliade
Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.
— Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
— Paul Ricœur
A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.
— Anthon St. Maarten
Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.
— Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
— Elaine Maxwell
How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain, the hand of destiny had stayed so far inland, away from the busy coastlines, to alight on the people who were, of all, the most stubbornly rooted in the silt of the Ganga, in a soil that had to be sown with suffering to yield its crop of story and song? It was as if fate had thrust its fist through the living flesh of the land in order to tear away a piece of its stricken heart.
— Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
Unity! Duty! And destiny!
— Greg Farshtey
I've never felt normal, because I'm not normal, and I don't wanna be. I've had to face death and loss and pain in your world, but I've also never felt stronger, like more real, more myself, because it's my world too. It's where I belong.
— Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
Who do people say the Son of Man is? ...But what about you? Who do you say I am?' (Mt 16:13,15). In the end, people's answer to this question will be the only thing that matters; it alone will determine people's eternal destiny.
— Andreas J. Kostenberger, Encountering John: The Gospel in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective
Every life is a mystery. And every story of every life is a mystery. But it is not what happens that is the mystery. It is whether it has to happen no matter what, whether it is ordered and ordained, fixed and fated, or whether it can be missed, avoided, circumvented, passed by; that is the mystery.If she had not come along the Via Piemonte that day, would it still have happened? If she had come along the Via Piemonte that day, but ten minutes later than she did, would it still have happened? Therein lies the real mystery. And no one ever knows, and no one ever will.("For The Rest Of Her Life")
— Cornell Woolrich, Angels of Darkness
I don't like the darkness but I want to live in it, I don't want to have pains but I always have it, I want to live in good way, happy and very normal life but I just can't. Because it's not that thing which some one gave me and I didn't took from anybody or anything that's just my destiny.
— Shayne Azad
There is a design working behind the curtain of the stars, and we are fulfilling it, drawn toward the future on the tide of time, toward our destiny as the first settlers of a new world."The room was still. He has them, she thought.
— Amy Kathleen Ryan, Glow
Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.
— Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles
The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.
— David Millar, Racing Through the Dark
What destiny is there, but to sense, observe, merge, re-emerge,Empty, yet filled, spreading everywhere, inside, outside, in, Pulsing, fluctuating, breathing as part of one being, Whispering, feeling, reflecting, flowing between hot and cold, Mineral and plant, dark and light, love and fear, new and old.
— Jay Woodman
All souls make choices throughout their lives, some are good and some are evil - their fate with the universe has no bearing on those choices. Their choices permit them to be whole or to remain fragmented
— Nancy Straight, Destiny's Revenge
What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God - or begging Him to let her son live and to spare her from the life of a cripple? Or was the power behind destiny merely a natural mechanism, a force no different in origin from gravity or magnetism?
— Dean Koontz
Don't settle for less than God's best for you".~R. Alan Woods [2013]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
At the negotiations in Irvine, it became clear to me that there was no side I could stand on. The English despise me and my countrymen don’t trust me. Wallace and the others are rebelling in the name of Balliol. I cannot fight with them. It would be as much a betrayal of my oath as when I was fighting for England. I know what I must do. What I should have done months ago.’Robert felt embarrassed, about to say the words. Inside, his father’s voice berated him, but he silenced it. ‘I want you to weave my destiny,’ he finished. ‘As you did for my grandfather.’When she spoke, her voice was low. ‘And what is your destiny?’He met her eyes now, all hesitation and embarrassment gone. ‘To be King of Scotland.’A smile appeared at the corners of her mouth. It wasn’t a soft smile. It was hard and dangerous. ‘I will need something of yours,’ she said, rising.
— Robyn Young, Insurrection
Drea, believe and follow your heart, Remember that the choices you made will lead you to your destiny.
— Josie Zapanta Stewart
When life gives you lemons, you don't make lemonade. You use the seeds to plant a whole orchard - an entire franchise! Or you could just stay on the Destiny Bus and drink lemonade someone else has made, from a can.
— Anthon St. Maarten
Before your reach your destination, you'll find yourself going through the wilderness. There's some survival skills that you'll need master through the wilderness journey. While in the wilderness, your faith will be tried and tested. You'll become humble. Your vision for your life will get clearer. You're in training for your purpose. You'll lose some friends, because there's some folks who are only with you because of where they think your journey will lead THEM. Don't worry, they're a little confused... but it was meant for them to get lost during this phase. Walk on. Continue on your journey. Soon, you'll be approaching the mountain. Get ready to climb!
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
Some people think destiny is something you cannot escape, such as death or a curdled cheesecake, both of which always turn up sooner or later.
— Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.
— Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune.“…What’s real is something that not even the strength of the Goddess can change. The only one who can change it is me. If I don’t change my destiny, if I don’t cut through the obstacles in my path, then no matter where I go, I’ll always be standing in the same place, doing the same thing over and over again, for the rest of my life.
— Miyuki Miyabe, Brave Story
Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.
— Marina Tavares Dias
Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.
— Jeanette Winterson, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
If your boss asks you to do a task... You'll stay late for work to make sure it's done. You'll be confident that your boss wouldn't have asked you if he/she didn't trust that you could do it. You wouldn't allow anyone or anything to distract you. No matter how hard it is, it's not an option, you'll find a way to make it happen. You'll not only find time, you'll try to get it done before the deadline. So, why when God gives you a task... you allow fear to consume you, find excuses, allow distractions, care about what people think and assume it's impossible? If He gave it to you, He trusts you CAN get it done. Yes, they'll be distractions. And no it's not going to be easy, but know that it is POSSIBLE!!! Answer the call!
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them. Nobu's touch had made a deeper impression on me than most. No one could tell me whether he would be my ultimate destiny, but I had always sensed the en between us. Somewhere in the landscape of my life Nobu would always be present. But could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, where not even I would ever see them?
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
There comes a moment in our lives when some of the pieces of the puzzle come together - where all our past experiences, both good and bad, are brought to bear in causing us to become who God intends us to be.
— Michael Card, A Fragile Stone: The Emotional Life of Simon Peter
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You believe in Destiny, don't you?""Yes," said Leah quietly."Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine
— Jacquelyn Frank, Adam
Which side was I on? There was no time to search for answers. All I could do now was ride on a werewolf's back, toward a destiny as hidden as the dark side of the moon.
— Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it. We are inclined to lay the chief stress on likeness and not on difference, and in foreign bodies we admit that there are many degrees of warmth below blood heat, but none of cold above it.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.
— Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
Well, this is the hardest part to believe; look, you can suspend me if you want to, but it's the God's honest truth. This man Tompkins came all the way down to where I was bending over the body at the foot of the stairs. I straightened up and covered him with my gun. It didn't faze him in the least, he kept moving right on past me toward the street-door. Not quickly, either; as slowly as if he was just going out for a walk. He said, 'It isn't my time yet. You can't do anything to me with that.' ("Speak To Me Of Death")
— Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")
— Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
Still, the seeds of change have been sown in my mind, and they will not be easily forgotten.
— C.M. Stunich, The Feed
The sun would still rise, the seasons would still come, life would continue. I was thankful to have been a part of it; I would take the memories and savor them for the life ahead. I had been given the components that would comprise the fate of my destiny; they had aged into my soul so that part of the past would always remain with me. They would be there for me to draw strength from on days in my future when death would seem a triumph and life too hard to live any more.
— Sara Niles, Torn From The Inside Out
Affraig’s eyes moved to the oak tree that towered above her, its branches like antlers against the white sky. Her gaze travelled up to the weathered web that hung from one of the higher boughs, the slender noose swinging inside. In her mind she saw herself weaving it while she chanted words against Malachy’s wrathful curse. She remembered the lord’s hand settling on her shoulder, the hiss of the fire,his breath on her neck and, outside, stars falling like fiery rain. Her gaze moved west towards Turnberry.Her memory clouded with thoughts of the earl, but as she thought of his son her mind cleared. The stars had been falling too on the night he was born. She remembered seeing Mars, full and red, a bloody eye winking in the black.
— Robyn Young, Insurrection
It was once stated that God didn't play with dice, but then I discovered that most of the Gods did play with dice. However, they didn't see Destiny playing chess the entire time behind them. They never stood a chance, seeing that Destiny was on both sides of the board.
— Lionel Suggs
No one destined is to know their own destiny untill it is to late
— Joseph mcbrearty
No one is destined to meet our own destiny until it's to late
— Joseph mcbrearty
The course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpation, but by the individuals. The strongest army is, at its most basic level, a collection of individuals. Their decisions, their passions, their foolishness, and their dreams shape the years to come. If there is any lesson to be learned from history, it is that all too often the fate of armies, of cities, of entire realms rests upon the actions of one person's decision, good or bad, right or wrong, big or small, can unwittingly change the world.But history can be quite the slattern. One never knows who that person is, where he might be, or what decision he might male.It is almost enough to make me believe in destiny.
— Jim Butcher, Furies of Calderon
Love couldn’t be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies—skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn’t deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same.
— Rachael Wade, The Tragedy of Knowledge
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.
— Ruth Cardello, Maid for the Billionaire
You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I’d vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn’t have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star
Every sacred mission, every hunt for hidden relics, every pilgrimage from one end of the earth to the other … I was looking for you.
— Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride
There's something AMAZING about you. You owe it to yourself to fulfill your destiny. You were put on earth for a reason. Don't betray yourself because of other people opinions of who you should be. God has already implanted within you who you MEANT to be. Trust your gut instincts.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
Don't be a creation of circumstances, create your dreams, take full control of your destiny.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality
Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at the right time. You never win or lose in life if you realise it is all just for the experience. Learn to create your own destiny, don't wait to see what fate throws your way.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don’t just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn’t do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.
— Ikechukwu Joseph
... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...
— John Geddes
I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!
— Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth
After a while you learn the difference between holding a hand and falling in love.. You begin to learn that kisses don't always mean something, Promises can be broken just as quickly as they are made, and goodbyes sometime really are forever!
— Atul Purohit
Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy... Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that can literally save their lives....gone through many different phases of Destines and that's what made me to pen down... hope it won't screw-up me again....Something beyond love...
— Atul Purohit
Our destiny becomes the accumulation of the choices that we make
—  the choices of which paths we took in life.
Champions are made and not born. Champion’s feat are acquired and not inherited, earned and not transferred, attained and not deposited
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Destiny is variable, not fixed; it is forever changing depending upon your free will to make choices for what you want your life to be.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
Failure is not fatal nor that you are finished but the result of unfinished product waiting to be reproduced, reprocessed and polished. Failure is that you have learned your omissions, mistakes or what you did not do right or well at the last attempt. You can transform failure into a fortune by dealing with what went wrong. Failure is only a product of uncorrected mistakes.
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Destiny is what you make it
—  otherwise you are at the mercy of fate.
That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
The sun rises in the east every morning and falls in the west, Ayden. Darknesses are awaken and fate is tested, destinies are foreseen. Thy soul the only enemy, a hero is born. A new light rises once again...
— Nadège Richards, Deceiving Destiny
Our destinies are riddled with challenges that have a tendency to ruin well laid plans. Many have attempted to take fate into their own hands and have been unsuccessful in changing it.Others find that their paths differ from what they have dreamed for themselves. We must be aware that our choices may come back to haunt us later in life, but to trust that is is all part of fate's desing.
— Peter Koevari
I'm gonna sit around here, stay away from there I'm gonna make pretend I just don't care. I could get up, go get her back or maybe I'll just let her go.Something beyond Love...lines from Love Vs Destiny...
— Atul Purohit
I love you more than depth of the ocean, but I can't let you feel the pain of it...lines from Love Vs destiny....
— Atul Purohit
Don't let the Dogma of men to interfere with your Destiny
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world to just let her go.lines from Love Vs Destiny...
— Atul Purohit
No matter how many miles I move away, my love will always remain within the boundary of your heartLines from Love Vs Destiny...
— Atul Purohit
You are the creator of your own perceived reality. Don't be a creation of circumstances. Always take full control of your destiny.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to the Laws of Creation
You have the right to chose your destiny, otherwise you will be left to live someone else's idea of what your life should be.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
— Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything
—  the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
Where does destiny end and choice begin?
— Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.
— David Hewson, Macbeth
There was no evidence I could do anything to change destiny, but I owed it to myself to try.
— Michelle Madow, Remembrance
To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.
— Paulo Coelho
The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
— Darren Shan, Wolf Island
If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
— Darren Shan, Wolf Island
There is no getting away from the past or from one’s destiny.
— Laxmi Hariharan, The Destiny of Shaitan
Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?
— Michelle Madow, Remembrance
Last Friday in the music room, every word I said felt like I was taking a knife to my own skin, cutting so deep that I thought I would never know how to not feel pain again,” he said, his voice remarkably calm for such a strong statement. “The worst of it was knowing that in fighting us being together, I was still causing you pain. I can’t do it anymore.” He stood still, focused intensely on me. “Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?
— Michelle Madow, Remembrance
The Lack of perseverance and effort isn't called Destiny !
— Shahryar Barani
Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.
— Arlene J. Chai
And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?
— David Hewson, Macbeth
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
— Oscar Wilde
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take the
— Jim Jarmusch
Doors are for people with no imagination.
— Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
— Albert Einstein
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
— Maya Angelou
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
— Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so thatwithout the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
— Pearl S. Buck
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.
— Anaïs Nin
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
— Erich Fromm
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
— Albert Einstein
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
— Sophia Loren
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
— Andy Warhol
If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
— Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. 
— Ernest Hemingway
If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be pat
— Hilary Mantel
Chance favors the prepared mind.
— Louis Pasteur
Creativity is as important as literacy
— Ken Robinson
Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
— Martin Luther King Jr.