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When God places his Destiny on your life, nobody can take it away.
— Joe Joe Dawson
Please don't talk to me like I'm crazy. I've been accused of personality disorders enough this week, thanks. You know I've slept with girls before and didn't get attached.
— Pat Shand, Destiny, NY, Volume One: Who I Used to Be
Fate had kept me alive just to get to this point, just to see if I had been listening.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
Fate had kept me alive just to get to this point, just to see if I was listening.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
The only thing that affects your destiny is the thought you are thinking at the moment.
— Abraham-Hicks
From deep quiet gorges and wilderness of the holy mountain came to her wonderful, like silver mist, dreams and silently whispered into her ears that she was designed for extraordinary deeds.
— Osyp Nazaruk, Roxelana
Every person, I have come to believe, has a moment or a place in life when all four points of the compass converge, from when or where their life finally takes--for better or for worse--its fated course.
— Peter Geye, Wintering
Relax
—  allow God to take all your decisions - big or small- because He is the Author of our destiny …
Then the prophetess said to the witcher: "I shall give you this advice: wear boots made of iron, takein hand a staff of steel. Then walk until the end of the world. Help yourself with your staff to break the land before you and wet it with your tears. Go through fire and water, do not stop along the way,do not look behind you. And when the boots are worn, when your staff is blunt, once the wind and the heat has dried your eyes so that your tears no longer flow, then at the end of the world you mayfind what you are looking for and what you love...The witcher went through fire and water, he did not look back. He did not take iron boots or a staffof steel. He took only his sword. He did not listen to the words of prophets. And he did well because she was a bad prophet.
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Czas pogardy
We're all destined for greater things in life. How you execute your plans to achieve that greatness lies solely in your hands.
— Katlego Semusa
Greater Thoughts Reveal Greater Destiny !
— Gollapalli Nithin Kumar
Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?
— Pat Shand, Destiny, NY, Volume One: Who I Used to Be
Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
Death is the destiny.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Can man direct his course?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are in control of your destiny. Start making plans, set goals and work as best towards them.
— Hopal Green
Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.
— Stuart Land, Primal Daughters
When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of destiny.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Comfort has been the very reason why so many people never lived their real and true destiny though they got to a certain comfortable destination!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A consistent man believes in destiny
—  a capricious man in chance.
Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believing that we had ownership, that we could have done something to change the outcome. It's lazier than The Clapper.
— Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
The cycle of birth, life and death is all part of nature but we can choose to live through the cycle with a hand on the Wheel of Destiny.
— F.S. Zi, Get the Life You Want - The Chinese Astrological Way
​In this World, there is One Task, that 'Only You' can Do. Only You, Can Keep Your Word.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Decisions shape destiny. Be bold to make them. The worst form of decision is INDECISION
— Sesan Kareem
Question is the Champion of Quest
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
The cold surface somehow enabled him to remain calm; he kept his eyes upon the summit, awaiting the arrival of reinforcements. The pace of his breathing remained steady, as did his pulse; it was in such moments men came of age; ‘the night is ours, the night is ours’, Jelani whispered.
— A.H. Septimius, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
We make our own destiny.
— Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter
Mind Your Qi, Activate Your Luck!
— Alvin Yap, Mind Your Qi, Find Your Luck
A non handicapped person who relies on mendicity has allowed poverty to monopolised his destiny.
— Elijah Onyenmeriogu
As much as they were right for each other, time wasn't right for them.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues. In my youth I once read a French detective tale where the clues were actually in italics; but that is not McFate’s way — even if one does learn to recognize certain obscure indications.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
The boy didn't know what a person's "destiny" was. "It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.""At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours.
— Kirstin Leigh
Some believe it's destiny, Some believe it's fate, but I believe that happiness is something we create.
— Unknown, Michael G. Taklimi
Maris sighed, and put a gentle hand on his arm. "We'll do what we must, Coll. We have no choice." He looked up at her now, looking to her again as the child to the mother; although he knew now that she was as helpless as he, still he hoped. "Why don't we have a choice? I don't understand."Maris sighed. "It's law, Coll. We don't go against tradition here, you know that. We all have duties put upon us. If we had a choice I would keep the wings, I would be a flyer. And you could be a singer. We'd both be proud, and know we were good at what we did. Life will be hard as a land-bound. I want the wings so much. I've had them, and it doesn't seem right that they should be taken from me, butmaybe—maybe the tightness in it is something I just don't see. People wiser than we decided that thingsshould be the way they are, and maybe, maybe I'm just being a child about it, wanting everything my own way.
— George R.R. Martin, Lisa Tuttle
Fate is a crazy thing.
— Saumya Sharman, The Ultimate Decision
Who am I? The shell-selling Lace girl, the attendant of Lady Arilou, Mother Govrie’s other daughter, the thing of dust, the victim, the revenger, the diplomat, the crowd-witch, the killer, the rescuer, the pirate?I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.
— Frances Hardinge, The Lost Conspiracy
Do not let time pass you by -- make it a part of you.
— Andy Harglesis
The focus on our destiny and understanding our true self keeps us from not giving up
— Sunday Adelaja
Life without knowing your destiny leads to “rat races”, depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide
— Sunday Adelaja
We must have the self-knowledge of our destiny and the purpose of our birth on earth
— Sunday Adelaja
They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.
— Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them
— Sunday Adelaja
Your destiny provides you with answers to the questions concerning you overcoming different obstacles, hassles and giving you a vision of your future
— Sunday Adelaja
According to the Word of the Lord, we are called but we have the choice of determining our destiny
— Sunday Adelaja
We did not receive this destiny by ourselves, God has chosen it for us
— Sunday Adelaja
God creates the destiny of every nation according to the times
— Sunday Adelaja
You were chosen by God to create the destiny of the nation and to lay a foundation for the generations to come
— Sunday Adelaja
There will always be thosewho say you are too young and delicateto make anything happen for yourself.They don't see the part of you that smolders.Don't let their doubting drown outthe sound of your own heartbeat.You are the first drop of rain in a hurricane.Your bravery builds beyond you.You are needed by all the little girlsstill living in secret, writing oceansmade of monsters, andthrowing like lightning.You don't need to grow upto find greatness.You are so much stronger than the worldhas ever believed you could be.The world is waiting for youto set it on fire. Trust in yourselfand burn.
— Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers
Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny.
— Jeffrey Fry
They're tulip seeds, the symbol of our country.But, more than that, they represent a truth you must learn. These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.
— Paulo Coelho, The Spy
If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.
— Mike Klepper
Future is predestined and unchangeable.
— Vivake Pathak, God and Destiny
We all wish something or other in our life in our own way, but God have other plans and they are best for us to realize our dream and destiny. All we need is to have faith in him always and never to lose hope.
— Pravin Agarwal, 8 Course Meal For The Soul
You don't know how Fate finds you, and neither do I. But until it does, we get to be whatever we can be."pg 354
— Veronics Roth
It is necessary to understand your destiny because you were created for a purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
With a sincere heart and a gifted spirit, William penetrates the souls realm so as to assist those who seek his guidance to move closer to filling their destiny.
— William Kennett, Little Book of Destiny
Discovering your identity is the key to fulfilling your destiny
— Sunday Adelaja
If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the task of surviving, each of us must find answers to the questions concerning our destiny
— Sunday Adelaja
You can't outrun what's inside of you. You can only acknowledge it, work around it, try and turn it into something better. I may not know exactly where I'm headed, but this time I'm choosing my own destiny.
— Amy Engel, The Roanoke Girls
A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.
— Stephen Fry
Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and true shape and form!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Mankind’s original destiny was to extend God’s glorious dominion of love throughout the earth
— Sunday Adelaja
To Be Empowered Is To Fulfill Destiny
— Sunday Adelaja
To Fulfill Destiny Is To Walk In The Ordained
— Sunday Adelaja
To fulfil destiny is to bring the whole earth under the principles of God’s kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Fellowshipping with God continually is to maintain your well-being
— Sunday Adelaja
The destiny of future generations depends on our action today
— Sunday Adelaja
Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you.
— Kenneth Eade, Traffick Stop, an American Assassin's Story
Fulfilling destiny is to be an effective laborer
— Sunday Adelaja
To find your promise land is your ultimate destiny
— Sunday Adelaja
Your destiny will be fulfilled as you extend kingdom principles and lifestyle on earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Why do things happen the way they do? Is there some kind of order in all this chaos that we just don't see, or is it all, as the mathematically minded people would like us to believe, just random coincidence? If you put one hundred apes in a room, they'll tell you, with one hundred typewriters, and given an infinite amount of time and bananas, one of them would eventually churn out the complete Oxford dictionary. It's all statistical math and probability. The odds of winning the lottery are greater than the odds of getting struck by lightning, but someone wins, don't they? And people get hit by lightning disturbingly more often that you would think. Their point is, eventually all things happen. No matter how philosophically unprejudiced you are, you can't argue with statistical probabilities. But you can certainly give the mathematicians some substantial cud to chew on, can't you? For instance, sure, everything may be eventual from a statistical point of view, but what happens to the formula if you plug in when a particular thing happens? The fortuitousness of the timing? Or combine a particular coincidence with other seemingly non-related coincidences that might have occurred within the same general time frame? We've all had it happen. It's one of our favorite phrases: "Why me? Why now?" Well, when you take the "when" into account, all kinds of very interesting and un-mathematical things begins to happen. The coincidence becomes too coincidental to be a coincidence.
— Mike Battaglia
The destiny of future generations depends on our actions today
— Sunday Adelaja
You don’t have to believe in karma, (I didn’t). But you can bet your ass that karma will have been keeping an eye on you.
— Garry Crystal, Leaving London
Well, you may think you have all your ducks in a row, that your life is sorted. You might have the perfect house, the perfect job, the perfect life, nothing to worry about and then something can come along and end all of that in a second. It’s absolutely beyond your control. You can’t plan for unexpected things. And then people start saying, as a way of coping with this latest catastrophe, that it was meant to happen, it was fate. It’s not fate, it’s not some greater force out there. It’s just life and you cannot control life.
— Garry Crystal, Leaving London
The destiny of the country depends on the actions and the position of His messengers
— Sunday Adelaja
Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
— Lao Tzu
The love is in the waiting...
— Tiffany Reisz, Poinsettia
It can get a little complicated when you have the expectation that you’re supposed to live Happily Ever After with this person when they were designed to stay with you for just a little while. Our Master designs it this way so you make the most of the relationship when you have it. She thought all soul mates were meant to be forever, when some soul mates are just meant to be.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...
— José Saramago, Blindness
Our Master can see it all. If you drive down a long curvy road, you don’t see the twists and turns until you are on top of them. But when you see things from a much higher perspective, you can see the whole road and the twists and the turns and the beginning and the end. In Heaven we can see where you are in relation to where you’re going and we can make things happen along the way at the intersections of life. We can create the right time and the right place and we can already see how it all ends. We can see the whole story of your life while you are living it in little bits and pieces.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?
— Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer
Our ability to choose is sacred. It’s what makes humans special.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Ending Easter
Coincidence sometimes volatile
—  other times a slow spark that rekindles our destiny's light
Meeting her was luck.Knowing her was maddening.Loving her is destiny.
— Ravikant Mahto
JAMIE'S SONG 'I Had No Choice':I had no choice, I had to be hers.And now she’s gone, I have to be hurt.She’s not the one that I wanted,She’s just the one that I had.She’s not the one that I’d chosen,She’s just the one I got given.I never said, ‘Hey, she’s the one for me,’It was already built in me.I didn’t say, ‘Hey, she’s so pretty,’It’s just these eyes were made to see… her.I had no choice, I had to be hers.And now she’s gone, I have to be hurt.I had no choice, that’s how it was written.I had no choice, that’s the life I got given.
— Neha Yazmin, Chasing Pavements
Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.
— Augustine of Hippo
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, The Thieves of Nottica
Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.
— Cory Doctorow, Makers
Because of His love, God always provides us with the perfect sketch of our destiny and true purpose for us to apply the finishing lines.
— Cherry MPIO
Treat destiny as the brainchild of passage.
— Andy Harglesis
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
She had feared the worst, and even though at that very moment she would have liked to wring her neck, she was happy to learn that suicide was not one of the stupid things that Eve had in her repertoire. Suicide made no sense: situations change, people change, and the problems of today may find a solution tomorrow. So long as you’re in the game you can change the final score, but if you take yourself out of it, you’ll never know how it might have ended, and you let the world win.
— Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart
I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.
— Christa Wolf, Medea
It was chance. A random series of events given meaning by somone desperate to prove there's a design to our lives. That the minutes and hours between our birth and death are ore than frantic moments of chaos. Because if that's all they are - if there are no rules governing our lives - then our entire existence is a meaningless farce.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.
— Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven
This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—
— Stephen King, The Waste Lands
Don't let the fear of failure keep you away from your Destiny.
— Jeanette Coron
No one is sent by accident to anyone.
— Juvy Ann, String of Fate
I have become a trailblazer for my destiny
—  the entrepreneur of my fate.
We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.
— Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
Fate bring two people together and it is love's job to keep them there
— Juvy Ann, String of Fate
Do you know what it's like to be condemned to love?
— Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
You always have a choice. Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you
— Kenneth Eade, Traffick Stop, an American Assassin's Story
I crave intimate love. Words that make my soul dance, a touch that gives me goosebumps, eye contact that electrifies my entire body, a kiss that could have me questioning whose air I am breathing.
— Nikki Rowe
It's laughable, looking back, to see the processes I went through, pretending to make a reasoned decision. No choice is ever made on the basis of logic; the logic is fabricated around the impulse, the initial desire which is innate and incontrovertible. All the time, I knew where I was going, the elements of my fulfillment or ruin were always present; I only had to work my way into that seam of desire and find the hidden vein of dross or gold. It's not a question of predestination, it's just that free will and destiny are illusions, false opposites, consolations. In the end, they are one and the same: a single process. You choose what you choose and it could not have been otherwise: the choice is destiny. It was there all along, but any alternative you might have considered is an absurd diversion, because it is in your nature to make one choice rather than another. That is identity. To speak of freedom or destiny is absurd because it suggests there is something outside yourself, directing your life, where really it is of the essence: identity, the craftwork of the soul.
— John Burnside, The Dumb House
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
— William James
I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million.
— Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Suddenly I was struck motionless: I was living through the first chapter of a novel in which I was the heroine; she was still almost a child, but we, too, were growing up.
— Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with. There is no problem about changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
We have no destiny assigned us:Nothing is certain but the body
—  we planTo better ourselves
There was no such thing as destiny, and no such thing as prophecy; there was only matter slamming into other matter like two toy trucks in the hands of a child.
— C. Robert Cargill, Dreams and Shadows
One shouldn't envy another person's Destiny!As the fate written for everyone is not the same but surely a good one.
— raja shakeel mushtaque
Things happen that way if destiny so desires. The whole universe conspires to make it happen.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Don’t blame any one, including you. There is something called destiny.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
We can live such a more abundant life when we simply embrace the journey as much as we desire the destination.
— Allen Dominique
Even expression of love becomes bone of contention if destiny so desires.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
There is a man waiting for a woman like you, don't settle for someone who only opens half of your heart.
— Nikki Rowe
Our eyes met and our souls caught on fire.
— Nikki Rowe
Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You don’t need validation or approval from anyone but yourself. Even if the entire world goes against, disagrees with or attempts to crush you, stand up for what you believe in, and stand up alone if you have to! It’s better to die while living your own truth than to live in the truth of another. Lord Krishna in the holy Bhagavad Gita pointed this out when he said;“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” Integrity is the key to freedom. It’s only your own truth that can ‘set you free.’ It’s perfectly fine if your truth doesn’t match that of others because the experience of physical reality is a completely subjective one. It doesn’t make either of you wrong, as long as you’re both being true to yourselves, that’s all that matters.
— Craig Krishna, The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind
Upon first glance I felt a sense of familiarity with you. Like we had been down this road a thousand times before, why I felt this with a complete stranger I am yet to know but I trust further down the road our chance meeting will make perfect sense.
— Nikki Rowe
The destination lies in the dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I think that both our lives and the potential directions our lives may go are predestined. By using our free will in making our life choices, we do nothing else but picking up one of many already predestined options. To us, it seems like we were making the decision, while in reality, we just selected one of many possibilities that were already a part of our destiny.
— Stevan V. Nikolic, Truth According to Michael
Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?
— Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child
I thin​k​ that both our lives and the potential directions our lives may go are predestined. By using our free will in making our life choices, we do nothing else but picking up one of many already predestined options. To us, it seems like we were making the decision, while in reality, we just selected one of many possibilities that were already a part of our destiny.”“Don’t you think God is so powerful that he can make us believe that we made some choices, when in actuality, he had made a choice for us?
— Stevan V. Nikolic, Truth According to Michael
The journey may be fraught with challenges, yet it continues, for even the smallest leaf must embrace destiny...Persistence is the key...
— Virginia Alison
We are individually responsible for our own happiness and destiny
— Margo Vader
Discover your destiny.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I come to call down my destiny - and it is tall and dangerous!
— Robin Jarvis, The Final Reckoning
I don't want to be the Starwife!" Ysabelle protested. "It isn't fair!"Her mother wavered; even now, it was not too late."You must fulfill your destiny," she said at last. "The Starwifeship is already yours. All that remains is for you to bring the amulet and the Starglass together. Once that is done, the power of the heavens will be yours to command. Use it wisely, for the forces locked within the Silver Acorn may be used for good or ill. On your journey, never be parted from it; always wear it about your neck.
— Robin Jarvis, The Oaken Throne
The time is come," he spoke quietly. "Now, when lesser folk would wither, thou must be true to the blood of thine ancestors. Much greatness is bred in thee; accept now this terrible mantle and take a step nearer thy destiny.
— Robin Jarvis, The Oaken Throne
Many are of the mindset that a door will open for them one day. That is great, but what if no door opens for you in quite a long time?Do you continue to wait, or find an alternative?My answer to you is learn to create your own door. By so doing, you will create a future for yourself, and thus you can have control over your life and be the driver of your destiny.
— Oscar Bimpong
Hard work and focus and will would shape my future. Nothing was meant to be.
— Diana Nyad, Find a Way
Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.
— Max Weber
Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and, little by little, begins to rule us. Already in The Joke: “I came to realize that there was no power capable of changing the image of my person lodged somewhere in the supreme court of human destinies; that this image (even though it bore no resemblance to me) was much more real than my actual self; that I was its shadow and not it mine; that I had no right to accuse it of bearing no resemblance to me, but rather that it was I who was guilty of the nonresemblance; and that the nonresemblance was my cross, which I could not unload on anyone else, which was mine alone to bear.”And in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: “Destiny has no intention of lifting a finger for Mirek (for his happiness, his security, his good spirits, his health), whereas Mirek is ready to do everything for his destiny (for its grandeur, its clarity, its beauty, its style, its intelligible meaning). He felt responsible for his destiny, but his destiny did not feel responsible for him.
— Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
Reality is the raw material, language is the way I go in search of it - and the way I do not find it. But it is from searching and not finding that what I did not know was born, and which I instantly recognise. Language is my human effort. My destiny is to search and my destiny is to return empty-handed. But - I return with the unsayable. The unsayable can only be given to me through the failure of my language. Only when the construction fails, can I obtain what I could not achieve.
— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars.
— Shannon L. Alder
It's filled with magic that's how I know if something's real.
— Nikki Rowe
A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Have faith in the future and accept your fate.
— Navy Topaz, Drop-Dead Gorgeous
There is a rule in Heaven that says we cannot tell someone something that might shift the living out of their destiny during their lifetime on earth. People must be led by either their mistakes or by their faith, and this is why they cannot be told certain things ahead of time.
— Kate McGahan, The Lizard from Rainbow Bridge: A True Tale of an Unexpected Angel
Then the prophecies of the old songs have turned out to be true, after a fashion!” said Bilbo. “Of course!” said Gandalf. “And why should not they prove true? Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a whole wide world after all!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Life is like the wind on the ocean; if it is against you, it doesn’t really matter what direction it comes from or what direction it blows. It also doesn’t matter what you do or fail to do. So you are better off doing whatever you want.
— Dauglas Dauglas, Roses in the Rainbow
I don't know what is in my destiny, but I want to be sitting on top of the highest peak of the sky.
— Tanmaya Guru
A change of feeling is a change of destiny. - Neville Goddard P.g44
— Rhonda Byrne, The Power
Remember the Morning Star,” he enjoined. But I didn’t tell him about Tegg, whose face was the starry void itself...
— Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor
If you call upon the Gods and they answer, who is there to oppose or to challenge the integrity of your Path?
— Andrew D. Chumbley, The Azoetia: A Grimoire Of The Sabbatic Craft
Carve your own adventure, bloom your own romance, thread your own signs
— Noor Iskandar
The great beauty of life is its mystery, the inability to know what course our life will take, and diligently work to transmute into our final form based upon a lifetime of constant discovery and enterprising effort. Accepting the unknown and unknowable eliminates regret.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
They say marry the person with whom you are the closest to, the guy with whom you can share your 3 am thoughts with, sitting on a rooftop and discussing random things like why cavemen were hirsute or why the earth isn’t a square. The genie who knows what you want before you open your mouth. The angel who reads your mind before you can articulate your thoughts. The friend you can laugh and cry with. The brother whose arms are safer than any amount of security and protection the outside world can provide you. The parent that will support you through thick and thin, no matter what. The soul whose love for them in the river of your heart will never dilute, even when the currents get rough, and the waters, dark. The fellow who would tell you that he loves you every night and spend the day proving it through little gestures that speak much louder than any words of love. The person with whom you can hold hands when you turn eighty and announce to the world- ‘we made it!
— Faraaz Kazi, More Than Just Friends
If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen," he says in response.
— Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes
A person devolves his or her hardiness from the ark-like powers of love to create, protect, and destroy. When we are in love, we discover what we long to become, we also discover what we lack. When we are in love, we are empowered to seek out our destiny. When we lose at love, our confidence is devastated. In the wake of a breakup with a lover, we languish in solitude. Caught in the riptide of incompleteness, we suffer terribly.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility
Will you not see?” she cried. “You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it?
— Jane Gaskell, Strange Evil
The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it
— Naomi Novik, Blood of Tyrants
If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Possibility is not a facet of opportunity. It's one of fate. And I've never been one to fear destiny.
— Rebecca Harris, The Dead of Winter
All suffering is a consequence of a constant quest. A quest to follow a mirage, the mirage that is the creation of our mind, the illusion of happiness, the illusion of being loved. That is what it is. Love itself is an illusion. We misuse the word so much we forget what it means. It means nothing, because it simply does not exist. It is the destiny of the mind to seek. When it does not discover what it seeks, it gives birth to hopelessness. And given our undying spirit, from that hopelessness rises hope itself. This hope takes us to the quest all over again, churning us in an endless cycle of suffering. This cycle is called life. Suffer you will, one way or the other...
— Nilesh Rathod
Don't be discouraged when people leave your life because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but in line with God's purpose.
— Gugu Mona
It is fate, damn destiny, that has its way with us.
— Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking
Sometimes, things didn't always happen as we wanted them to.
— Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight
your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you.
— irrfan ishaq
What the fates have writ, men shall not erase . . . . How many times he [Lut] had uttered those words. But what exactly did they mean? That one’s fate was inalterably fixed? A man’s entire life? Was there no chance for redemption? Though he had never revealed this to anyone, especially not the elders, he’d long entertained the notion that perhaps not all of a man’s life was preordained. For, if so, what was the point of living? Perhaps, just perhaps, he dared to imagine, impediments were placed in our paths by the gods, and a man was judged by how well he dealt with those obstacles . . . . Instead of a man being wholly defined by his fate, perhaps a man’s very character was defined by his response to the fate that was spun for him. Couldn’t it at least be possible?
— James Jennewein
Choices can help create the human desire for their future. But there are some, who's fate has already been decided.
— Michelle Goncalves
They say your hardcore's not yours, and it's not fate. Nobody's gonna tell you what shit like that means.
— Noah  Wareness
Intuition goes before you, showing you the way. Emotion follows behind, to let you know when you go astray. Listen to your inner voice. It is the calling of your spiritual GPS system seeking to keep you on track towards your true destiny.
— Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
After scientists broke open the coat of a lotus seed (Nelumbo nucifera) and coddled the embryo into growth, they kept the empty husk. When they radiocarbon-dated this discarded outer shell, they discovered that their seedling had been waiting for them within a peat bog in China for no less than two thousand years. This tiny seed had stubbornly kept up the hope of its own future while entire human civilizations rose and fell. And then one day this little plant's yearning finally burst forth within a laboratory. I wonder where it is right now.
— Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
Should I leave you two alone?" he asked, changing the subject."He's taken," I said, accepting the fact that forgiving himself was something Reyes didn't do. "Osh. By someone very special.""And who might that be?"This might be a little hard for him to swallow. Tact was definitely in order. Or I could just blurt it out and watch his expression go from content to disbelief to horror to a bristly, murderous kind of fury. I chose door number two. "He's destined to be with our daughter."Reyes's expression slowly changed from content to disbelief to horror to a bristly, murderous kind of fury. "Oh, hell, no." He shot to his feet. "A Daeva? Are you fucking kidding me?"Just like a dad."Yes, a Daeva. But I wouldn't dismiss him so offhandedly."He whirled around and scowled. Not really at me. Just in general. "What do you mean?"I pressed one corner of my mouth together in thought. "Okay, you know how I was the grim reaper all of my life, then suddenly I'm also this god from another dimension? And how you're the son of Satan all your life, then suddenly you're a god from this dimension? Who does that? Our lives are so weird. I think that maybe Osh is something else, too." I traced one of the dark lines on his face. "I think there's more than meets the eye. I see greatness in him, Reyes. I see a power beyond our imaginings. I see him giving his life for our daughter.""Oh." He sat back down, satisfied. "As long as he dies in the end.
— Darynda Jones, The Curse of Tenth Grave
The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do.
— Marty Rubin
Our thoughts are causes. You sow a thought, you reap an action. You sow an action, you reap a habit. You sow a habit, you reap a character. You sow a character, you reap a destiny. It all starts with a thought.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
The mirror it was and life it spelled,The road ahead, and the time past stepped,All gathered in one; one to all paired,My life is so different from all the world’s threads.My breaths are mine, my woes are too,If my life were put through you,You sure would unlikely pursue,It should be left for me to gather,I am its sculptor, mine would be the hammer.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
On paper it's perfect.But the thing about paper is: It burns.
— Cat Patrick, Just Like Fate
... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you’ve made for yourself, you were meant to save it.
— Eric  Smith
I try to forget you more often than not but somehow my mind wanders to places my heart feels are oh so very true.
— Nikki Rowe
If you want to open, come close to me, I have a key which can open the locked door of your destiny.
— Tanmaya Guru
Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.''There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our heads to rules ours hearts.''Emotion is our human weakness.,' she said, 'reason our strength.''And love,' he said, 'is our destiny.
— Mary Balogh, Bespelling Jane Austen
Maybe success comes from simply following one's destiny.
— David Morehouse, Psychic Warrior: The True Story of America's Foremost Psychic Spy and the Cover-Up of the CIA's Top-Secret Stargate Program
I can feel it, logic is trying to distract me but my heart it's screaming it's him.
— Nikki Rowe
No matter what you do, no matter how far away you run, what’s written in the stars cannot be undone.
— Tali Alexander, Lost in Rewind
Fortunes mean nothing without knowing the lives they forever changed.
— Tali Alexander, Lost in Rewind
You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows?
— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
You mean it's my destiny?" she said at last.Granny shrugged. “Something like that. Probably. Who knows?
— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
There is NO way you're living out your purpose if you're conforming to the rules. There is NO way you'll fulfill your destiny if you're trapped in the dogma of what other people think.
— Catrice M. Jackson
Something about him feels like forever…
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Resistance is a sign that shows you're going the right way
— Constance Friday
Fate is a fucking lie, and destiny is its bitch-ass cousin.
— Ellie Wade, Finding London
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, Rogues
Life is not about fulfilling a destiny. Your life has no destiny but what you make of it. And this is what I want to make of it. Barracus also told me to live the life that only I can live. He told me to have the courage to take up that calling. He was asking me to choose my destiny. Prophecy is not only about destiny, but the balance of free will. Becoming a Confessor is my calling. But it's not pre-ordained. It's a chance, a fork in the road of my life. I have to have the courage to take it on of my free will. In that way, the balance of prophecy and free will is the magic of the future.
— Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
Your destiny is to find the truth.
— Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
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, The Given Day
I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.
— MacDonald Harris
We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! The universe has designed us on purpose to who we are! We are God's MASTERPIECE! We are the most BEAUTIFUL thing in this universe!
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can.
— Nikki Rowe
You cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with God, your Creator. You exist only because God wills that you exist. You were made by God and for God – and until you understand that, life will never make sense. It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
The drums are slamming, rhythmic, exciting. As the minutes pass, it feels to me like we are collectively pulling the year 2004 toward us. Like we have roped it with our music, and now we are hauling it across the night sky like it's a massive fishing net, brimming with all our unknown destinies. And what a heavy net it is, indeed, carrying as it does all the births, deaths, tragedies, wars, love stories, inventions, transformations and calamities that are destined for all of us this coming year.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time. And there’s nothing romantic about keeping your head down to avoid getting shot, or trying to save a friend who’s been injured, or coming face to face with a creature who is as smart and mean and as terrified of dying as you are, and who wants to make sure that if someone is left on the ground there, it’s you and not it.
— John Scalzi, Questions for a Soldier
Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!
— Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
Life was like a jigsaw, but if you tried to fit the pieces together yourself, you generally got them wrong. Pierre had money; she needed money. Pierre was lovable and loved her; she would marry him. She had thought that was the pattern the pieces made. But it had been like trying to force two pieces together that didn't fit, and then, suddenly, the jigsaw had been done, in quite a different way, by other hands.
— Monica Dickens
If ANYTHING is meant to be, it will be ONLY if you work out the methodologies for it to be. Things just don't be because they work themselves out to be, or they want to be. They be because someone conceived them to be, and worked them out to be. Therefore, debunk the idea of leaving your THINGS to be in the fragile gamble of fate. MAKE THEM BE!
— Ufuoma Apoki
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
Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.
— Jim Harrison, In Search of Small Gods
Always be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life, Than living someone else’s life.
— Mouloud Benzadi
Twin flame love is raw, real and rare ~ it comes when we least expect, can't understand nor have the patience to accept it, than its gone & the true test of fate starts to play. A bond built amongst the stars can't be tampered by an earthly experience, trust the distance, twin flames always meet again.
— Nikki Rowe
Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...
— Michael Moorcock, Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand
Always be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life, Than living someone else’s life.
— Mouloud Benzadi
I’ll never fully shake that sense of absolute impotence when destiny is at work. The feeling will cling to my feet forever, trying to pull me down. Even now if I mess up a pass, that malign force could be to blame. For that reason, I steer well clear of the DVD from the Liverpool game.
— Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
Living your grandest dream will require you to be your grandest you.
— Catrice M. Jackson
Shake off the tonnage of old genetics, nitpicking naysayers and hand-me-down Egos hoarding junk in the back of your mind.Be a Friday night liberty set loose on Monday morning.
— Laurie Perez, Atomic Truths and Stellar Seeking: A Joybroker's Guide to the Stars Inside
I have always felt like a pawn... My skin color's been a curse, my missionary parents made me sober and intense, my school days brought me up against political crimes against Animals, my love life imploded and my lover died, and if I had any life's work of my own, I haven't found it yet, except in animal husbandry, if you could call it that.
— Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West