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Destiny. To believe that a life is meant for a single purpose, one must also believe in a common fate. Father to daughter, brother to sister, mother to child. Blood ties can be as unyielding as they are eternal. But it is our bonds of choice that truly light the road we travel. Love versus hatred. Loyalty against betrayal. A person's true destiny can only be revealed at the end of his journey, and the story I have to tell is far from over.
— Emily Thorne
But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
The Fall will always be yours and mine…
— Jennifer Elisabeth
If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Time' is the most threatening four letter word.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can control is the fate we choose for another.
— Emily Thorne
I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
You didn't judge my past. That's when I knew I couldn't turn away from you even if I tried...
— E.L. Montes, Perfectly Damaged
That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
The morning I drove by and saw you alone, staring at the house. I told myself to keep on driving, but something told me to stop. And when I'd seen how lost and confused you were, something told me I was meant to be there....I was meant to be there so I could help you find your way
— E.L. Montes, Perfectly Damaged
What do you think destiny is? A smooth path that never jostles you? No. When you walk in your destiny, you will crash and fall more times than you can count. But the secret is to hold on to God’s vision for your life — and for the lives of those He puts under your charge. No matter how many times you fall, crash, and fail, you get up. You get up and face your obstacles.
— Tessa Afshar, Harvest of Gold
Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.
— Clyde DeSouza, Memories With Maya
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
— Hyrum Smith
I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Write down what you want your destiny to be, and in so doing you will live your dreams.
— Stephen Richards
Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn’t dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.
— Michelle M. Pillow, The Perfect Prince
The Christian Journey is not just to a place "Heaven", it is also to a person "Jesus". Ephesians 4:13 says "Till we all come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
No... we're not playing God. We're only attempting to set things right.
— Clyde DeSouza, Memories With Maya
Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors -- he told them -- appointed to the work by the period of history, the place, and their own natural dispositions. In their cases, it was simply a question of who got to them first, Your Eminences: 'Whether it's us, whether it's the opposition, or whether it's the bloody missionaries.
— John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won't meet. Breaking the broom isn't a must. Don't mistake unmoved dreams for dust
— Isaiah J. Lawrence
Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism, won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.
— Clyde DeSouza, Memories With Maya
We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be fed. It is what makes us survive.
— DeiAmor Verus
Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.
— Charlotte Eriksson
In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
A powerful thing, destiny. You can't run from it. Not in the end.
— Richard C. Morais, The Hundred-Foot Journey
He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
But destiny is a very peculiar thing, with a complex timing that is impossible to comprehend.
— Diana Lanham, House of Aegea
I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?
— Jennifer Elisabeth
I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
There are many futures, not just one. Life is not like walking down the road and meeting the predetermined events.
— Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
It’s almost as if we don’t need to live our lives or feel our feelings at all, because someone already told us what the ending was going to be.
— Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed
The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time.
— Anthony Liccione
Dark rumblings inside told him he was in a tremendous amount of trouble. He didn't know how it was going to manifest or when but it was coming, sure as Zeta would break the horizon before everyone else arose from their sleepzone. If they hauled him away, then what?
— Marcha A. Fox, Beyond the Hidden Sky
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?love,
— Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
I know genes are a big deal, son, but they're not the be-all and end-all." Rob slowed to a halt at the lights, wishing the dickhead behind would back off. "If they were, you'd be in a seafood salad and I'd be in prison.
— Karen Traviss, Going Grey
Your problem is that you’re more like an empty book and you’re waiting on someone else to write your pages for you. For someone who doesn’t believe in fate, destiny and all that shit, you seem to spend an awful lot of time waiting for something to happen to you.
— Garry Crystal, Leaving London
I think that the things that are supposed to happen stay inside you...even if they cannot be, they fight to get out of you. Even if the adversities of life keep you imprisoned, making your destiny seem impossible...you still feel it. There has to be a place, somewhere, even in dreams... where the things that are supposed to happen...happen.
— Chelsie Shock, Rogue
I believe that life is written out for you, it maps out your life to make you happy, but what I’ve been living for the past four years is my unwritten life...
— Amy Shannon, Unwritten Life
His failure became my destiny
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
We're not reinventing the wheel. We're just rolling it down our own path.
— D.R. Pedraza, The Solomon Chronicles (Book  II )- Revisions
When fate connects an invisible thread between a man and a woman who are bound to be together, no matter how hard they try to fight against their own destiny, they can’t change what’s meant to be.
— Nino Varsimashvili
I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst - the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere - it's what comes after that determines the result.
— Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Promise
Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling. It was the voice of destiny, summoning the child into his future with all its glorious promise.
— Anne   Hamilton, God's Panoply: The Armour of God and the Kiss of Heaven
You're not the one Teach!!The man roger was waiting for,at the very least,it's not you teachJust as there are people who inherited roger's will...Someday one will carry ace's will...You may eradicate their bloodline ,but their flame never dies...For many ages , it has been passed down through the generations...And someday,bearing the weight of all these generations,a man will appear to challenge this world...Sengoku,you people of the World Government are living in fear of that great battle that will someday engulf the entire world...Though it has nothing to do with me... When somebody finds that treasure... The world will be turned upside down!!...OH yes!it will be found!That day will come!!!!ONE PIECE!IS OUT THERE!!!!!!
— Whitebeard
A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go....
— Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House
since destiny always rings three times...
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
So you believe in fate,” I say.Dr. Mann pauses thoughtfully before answering. “I believe each of us was uniquely created for a specific purpose designed by the Creator, and that, because of that, there are certain things in our lives that we are destined by Him to do. The rest, I think, is soft clay: left entirely to the defining influences of choice, chance, and circumstance. And luck! Don’t forget luck.
— Lauren Miller, Parallel
No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.
— Johnathan Jena
Explore your untamed dreams and you just might find a unique place where a confluence of paths lead towards your destiny.
— Kathy Goodhew, Confluence
A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
— Daisaku Ikeda
...Mr. Hardie had little patience with that sort of conversation."Ye're born, ye suffer, and ye die. What made ye think ye deserved different?" he wondered aloud when the deacon's gentle answers failed to quiet them.
— Charlotte Rogan, The Lifeboat
The pain and the sadness that you encounter when you lose something important is only a mix of one emotion: guilt. When you feel it once, you learn from it. When you live it twice, you mourn in silence. But if you experience it thrice, you will break, shattering like a frail piece of glass. But if you manage to survive, then you will only be a shadow of your soul: a broken doll. Because we are nothing more than mere puppets of Destiny, holding tightly on the string that keeps us from being consumed by the darkness. The string that will eventually lead humankind to its pinnacle.A simple red string named Hope.
— Giou Yomi
You become a hypocrite when you can't freely be at peace with others, but you can carry green palm leaves to church to commemorate "palm Sunday"! Throw those palm leaves somewhere; and lay your life down for someone to walk on and get to the destined land!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Life's situations are like a set of cards in your hands.You cannot change the cards, but you can surely play with them in your own unique way.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Destiny is a matter of chance and choice.
— Mark Verndick
Never underrate your confession. Destiny transformation begins when you begin to make positive confession about yourself
— Benjamin Suulola
Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.
— Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites
Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
Life is what happen when you wake up to its reality
— Benjamin Suulola
The way two people can and everything place, find each other in a crowd, and change your life the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. In fate love some extra authority. Some destined significance." Wow, very powerful.
— Deb Caletti, Stay
Uninformed, America may succumb to bad ideas and leaders. In succumbing, we fail to fulfill our destiny. Well informed, America rises as far as the good ideas and leaders it proactively chooses. In so rising, we fulfill our destiny and offer to the world vacuum its last best hope. (Scott L. Vanatter)
— Scott L. Vanatter
Your destiny is the only path to be travelled by you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everyone wears masks.They come in all different shapes and sizes.The only problem with trying one on is that it fits. How easily we fall into the trap that we don’t have to be who we really are.How easily we convince ourselves that we need to cover up what we were born to be.It’s a tragedy that fear keeps us from our destiny.It’s hell when the person you were created to be is covered up by some cheap imposter
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
— Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them. And if we’re not careful, we can be seduced by, and drawn back into, the youthful world the young preside over.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
What you choose today will determine who you are tomorrow.
— Tim Fargo
I do believe—that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far!" Luke (ACT I, Scene 7)
— Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
But, Mameha-san, I don’t want kindness!”“Don’t you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you’re in no position to ask.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
that droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life. It fell through empty space, with no control whatsoever over its destiny; rolled along a path of silk; and somehow came to rest there on the teeth of that dragon. I thought of the petals I’d thrown into the Kamo River shallows outside Mr. Arashino’s workshop, imagining they might find their way to the Chairman. It seemed to me that, somehow, perhaps they had.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
Façade. One, simple word. But, very complex portents. It’s like living a life of half-dead. You are neither fully inside a grave, nor completely out of it, beyond the oppressive calmness of the slabs, tombstones and plaques. There is one solace though, you soon discover that you are not alone in the vast graveyard of the half-dead. This is what Kamini soon realized when she plunged herself back into the world that the destiny had conspired her to inherit.
— Vinod Pande, Don's wife
In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression of Love and lovers is, in many cases (if not all) quixotic, dependent upon mutual understanding, the conditions of the moment, the awareness of the future, as well as the mundane life, in which we all must exist, embracing real life, as is the natural state, which sentient individuals traverse – illusion may help those in the ‘moment’, but does nothing for the long-term, except misdirect it.Poetry has always been a way to leave something for those who come after, a legacy of inspiration, methodology, spirit, love, emotion, historical sense and utility, depending upon the subject matter, intentions of the bard, and the situations, which frame the creation of that sense of experience, with which the Poet receives his Muse. Poems of Love and Light: In The Light of the Sun, Our Breath as One
— Frank L. DeSilva
Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own special privilege a certain unique destiny not afforded with equal measure to other organisms, so must it further—if paradoxically so—entertain the assumption that, in spite of this glorious determinism, there persists nonetheless a thread of free will—or, at the very least, some vague delusion thereof—woven seamlessly into the tapestry of collective experience. Of course, this conception that destiny is to be forged by one’s own hands more often engenders greater restriction than it does greater extension to the potential of human happiness.
— Ashim Shanker, Sinew of the Social Species
Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
The word "frustration" is defined as the unfortunate tendency of lessening one's destiny. Rise up and take all frustrations away! Stop squeezing your dreams into a small size... You were not created to settle for less!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Prior preparation is Success divided by half. Once you have fully prepared, every hand glove that obstacles wear to pull you away from reaching your destination will become slippery!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Mute's Soliloquy: a Memoir
Once we’ve savored the goodness of a hundred years until the final drop, only the fleeting memories of intoxication is left behind. Between you and me is it too much to ask for a bottle to begin with?
— Xue Yun
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… the love that speaks the Language of the World.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.
— Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
Your destiny lies in your own hands. But remember it was God who deposited it there!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
We are pushed towards eternal silence from the moment we are born. So when sadness tries to stifle us, we must not give in. We must keep whispering.
— Shaun Hick
Decision is the wing that makes dreams to go and grow and flow and fly. No decision, no fulfilled destiny!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..
— Judith Kinghorn, The Last Summer
Call your destiny. Put in your work. Manifest your blessings.
— Alafia Stewart
What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.
— Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow
The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through choices and others pre-ordained by destiny.
— Eugenie Laverne Mitchell
None of us really know what we’re doing,” Dia replied. “We just go out there and do it and have faith it’ll turn out okay.
— J.M. Darhower, Sempre: Redemption
You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.
— Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake
That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.
— Julian Huxley, New Bottles For New Wine
I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity.
— Edward Clodd
Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.-Soothsayer
— KungFuPandaMakers
The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes, twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through choices and others pre-ordained by destiny.
— Eugenie Laverne Mitchell
Everything since the beginning of time was working together to make my happiness possible: and then you. You walked into the audiovisual lab in your flannel shirt...and you fucked it up! You fucked everything up! Do you understand that? Because of you, the entire universe is ruined...forever!"--Kari, The Pavilion
— Craig Wright, The Pavilion - Acting Edition
What'd you think would happen when you died? That the prophecy would just be over and we'd all be like, oops, guess we got that one wrong?
— H.M. Ward, Torn
Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.
— K. Hari Kumar
Why would you want to be free of your destiny? Nothing else will satisfy. As for freedom, that's a matter of the heart. Pursue your destiny, and you'll find your freedom along the way.
— Karyn Henley, Breath of Angel
You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
There are a few things in life that occur, that you don't ask for, that are just dealt to you.These things can define you or you can define yourself through them.I elect to define myself through overcoming what has been dealt to me in my life.It took thirty-one years and two generations of tweaking to get my first perfect ending.Now I am going to work on my next one.
— JohnA Passaro, Again
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Ugly is, as Ugly does!
— Lorene Stunson Hill, To Dance with Ugly People
Maintain a belief system that admits that all things are possible for those responsible to have them done. It's nothing to deny; whenever God calls us for a responsibility, he give the ability for us to respond to that responsibility!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The crowded city streets, the chaos of disorderly lives – nothing could keep her from wreaking love. She always wanted to let go, and I always wanted to own. She always had it coming, and I never had a clue. She could light a moment with a smile, and I would stay lost anticipating the next one. She knew the present. I desired the future. Every. Single. Time.
— Prashant Chopra, The Eyes that drowned Uyuni
Your destiny is in your mind, just faith it and have a brighter destination.
— oladosu feyikogbon
We don't become gods because we think we are gods. That is only a sign of ego. We become gods when we realise that a part of the universal divinity lives within us; when we understand our role in this great world and when we strive to fulfil that role. That makes you a God. And remember, gods don't fail. You cannot fail.
— Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras
Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.
— Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons
Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Only in stillness the windOnly from ice the flame.When all were Nameless, the wise will tellIt was only by knowing the otherThat they came to know themselves.
— Jess E. Owen, Song of the Summer King
The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.
— Clyde DeSouza
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it's purposeful, we can fight it, it's hard to defeat, but we have a chance, like two boxers in the same weight class, more or less. If it's random, on the other hand, we're fucked, and we'll just have to hope that God, if He exists, has mercy on us. And that's what it all comes down to.
— Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made...
— Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Sometimes God's sudden turn in your life feels like a detour, but in actuality it is the straightest way to your destiny!
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
— William Osler, The Life of Pasteur
You Can Not Run From Destiny
— Ashley Stoyanoff, The Soul's Mark: FOUND
You can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or not you like it.
— Tom Upton, Just Plain Weird
Another name for destiny is opportunity, once you miss it, your destiny is gone.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Find what you love to do, what you're good at and passionate about and then dedicate your entire life to working hard at it. I wil say it again. Work hard. I mean that. Even if you're not sure where that work will lead, even if it is underappreciated or undervalued. Do it because the satisfaction, pride, and sense of self that comes from a job well done; from being the very best at what you do; from knowing that you did this, will be your ulltimate weapon and our greatest shield in a life that will often test you. One day destiny may conspire to take everything away from you, but it can never take away the abilities you have cultivated. As I am sure your grandfather will tell you, your winning lottery ticket is your mind.
— Amy Mowafi, Fe-mail 2
Can you hear Destiny laugh as she tiptoes toward you? Destiny is heartless.
— Anonymous
Every person in the world has to figure out what the right place for them is. It’s okay to be afraid, as long as you don’t allow the fear to take over your life.
— Leigh Hershkovich
It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
...be as fast as Usain Bolt, the winner is the winner, even if he crawls like a crab, his destiny is unshakable.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
From a rat hole you can go to the stars or from the stars you can go to a rat hole! Your destiny is open to every possibility!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The irony of what we define as a mistake can and will sometimes return to you as a redefined destiny that life sends your way without any of your own free will and choice in what happens. It just happens. Something in me changed in that one tell-tale moment. And for some strange reason, I knew there wasn’t a way of going back.
— Cyndi Goodgame, Orion
First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie.
— Angela Parkhurst, The Forgotten Fairytales
Now that you’re here, now that they know you exist, you’ll never be free again. Ever. We’re prisoners to our books, our fates planned long before we were born. You’re no different than us. Fight your fate all you want, but deep down you know it’s true.
— Angela Parkhurst, The Forgotten Fairytales
Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny
— Gino Norris, Stress Diary Journal
If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling."That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.
— Shannon L. Alder
Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise
He is holding a book.Inside the book is the Universe.
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights
To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions
—  and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.
— Alan Cohen
Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a propelling purpose, fulfilling a divine destiny. That is power!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
A person without a purpose is a human being merely breathing because he does not know where he is, let alone knowing where he is going. Purposelessness is lifelessness.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
Nothing is determined by fate. We create our own fate.
— Jessica Sankiewicz, If Only We
She told herself that she was happy to meet her executioner.
— Sarah MacLean, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
Since the beginning, the Fates determined which souls would be born, what kinds of lives they would live, and for how many days. They did this out of duty, out of destiny, and without emotion.
— Nicole Y. Walters
A bracing wind swirls about the boy and alights gently upon his shoulder to gape frightfully at droplets of fate joined infirmly to a sweep of atmospheric and lunar forces far beyond their capabilities to resist. He takes a long, deep breath of air—cleansed through its migration—and he closes his eyes.Scattered waves roll back in to the sea.
— Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe
Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea.
— Anthony Liccione
I had a dream, and I met with a king. I sold crystal and crossed the desert. And, because the tribes declared war, I went to the well, seeking the alchemist. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Wyatt knew with absolute conviction Clay didn't mean it. They didn't suffer through two very painful concussions together to walk the other way once they'd healed up. Those were battle wounds. It was like surviving a war together. Wyatt just chose to forget they'd been on opposing sides. He knew Clay was supposed to be his best friend. It felt like destiny. Just like he knew he was supposed to grow up, be sheriff, and marry Tabitha McMillen.
— Kele Moon, Crossing the Line
There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?
— Karen Essex, Dracula in Love
Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction.
— Omid Banyasad, The Deserter of Alamut
Your heart is your compass in the journey of life
—  follow it.
Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
If it was my lot that I should have him for only a little while, then have him I would.
— Jillian Kuhlmann, The Hidden Icon (Book of Icons)
One time Bonaventure heard the graphite of a pencil rasp across a piece of paper and leave a slight and quivered mark behind. He listened so hard he heard the graphite's history, when it was still a part of metamorphic rock that didn't know it would one day almost capture what was almost a thought from the mind of an insane man.
— Rita Leganski, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
Destiny is the established end of someone while vision remarks the photos of that predestined end, though not yet fulfilled. The insight of an unexperienced destiny can be discovered. That is through visions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
With every sunrise, we get to choose ... who we are, what we believe, and how we will live the life the gods have given us. We can’t always choose our circumstances. No. The Fates do that. But we can always choose who we will be and how we will be within them.
— Nicole Y. Walters, Charis: Journey to Pandora's Jar
The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.
— Raheel Farooq
Dont desire that destinyAt where you cant see anything.
— chikun trust
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...
— Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.
— Shannon L. Alder
Dreams are like stars. you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.
— Liam Payne
It’s good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you’ll get there, not because you’re destined to, but because you’re determined to.
— Steve Goodier
Sandgorse chose his own destiny. Why should he get to choose yours, too?
— Erin Hunter, Tallstar's Revenge
People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations.
— Shannon L. Alder
They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again.
— Danielle Steel, Until the End of Time
The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.
— Jessi Kirby, Golden
It’s been so hard!” she whispered. “I don’t know what our destiny is!”Cloudstar bent his head toward her. “Your destiny is what you make it, Leafstar.
— Erin Hunter, SkyClan's Destiny
What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportunity to come forth? Like the female cycle that comes every 28 days, over and over again, dreams come to rest in the soil of your mind. They compel you. They disturb you. They haunt you with visions of possibility. They prompt you to walk restlessly through life knowing that you may someday stop, listen and decide to nourish them with faith and action. Yield to the silent urging. Listen. Hear. Receive.Let the dream speak. For it will burst forth from the womb of your spirit. It frees into existence something that lives, brooding in the corner your mind. Hold the seed. Grow the seed. Birth the seed. And life will begin anew.
— Stella Payton
You were not created to come to this earth and say "me too I came to live some". You were create to make a difference!
— Israelmore Ayivor
One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power
—  we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.
Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fated to be killed by another, it would be interesting to trace the gradual convergence of their paths. At the start they might be miles away from one another – I might be in Pamir picking alpine roses and clicking my camera, while this other man, my death, might be eight thousand miles away, fishing for ruff in a little stream after school. I might be getting ready to go to a concert and he might be at the railway station buying a ticket to go and visit his mother-in-law – and yet eventually we are bound to meet, we can't avoid it...
— Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity
—  this is who you really are. Self-discovery of your inner-self is the path to your destiny...
Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
— Sophocles, Philoctetes
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
— Freeman Dyson
Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate
—  and it is not impossible that the poet in New Wye and the thug in New York awoke that morning at the same crushed beat of their Timekeeper's stopwatch.
The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy!
— Israelmore Ayivor
The termination
—  final chapter of endless road.
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Will or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. This desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Destiny never gives you chances, but in life you get many chances to change your destiny.
— Pratik Akkawar
The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The art of making True promises within ones ownself is termed as Will (Sankalp)... for beginners (like me) it is a tough learning and for siddhas
—  they just become that way... effortlessly they sail...
Define your destiny and drive with abandon!
— Gary Westfal, Dream Operative
Its not easy to steer life without errors
—  at times forced by propensity
The future is not what you will live tomorrow but the future is what you live today so that tomorrow you can be able to look at today and say I have lived.
— Angel Phetheni
Each of us is born to follow a star, be it bright and shining or dark and fated. Sometimes the path of these stars will cross, bringing love or hatred. However, if you look up at the skies on a clear night, out of all the countless lights that twinkle and shine, there will come one. That star will be seen in a blaze, burning a path of light across the roof of the earth, a great comet.
— Brian Jacques, Outcast of Redwall
There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
You can`t change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.
— Katie McGarry, Dare You To
All live and die believing that they have known love, thinking it is a common thing, because they confuse it with animal satisfaction; but love is a privilege, love is a lottery of fate, like wealth, like beauty, which only a small minority enjoy....
— Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Luna Benamor
Destiny changes, Fate changes, just believe in your inner self, your dreams and your strength
— Anamika Mishra
It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, and his gun and his wagon, and his waiting horses. She had no conception of what was being asked of her, but she knew that there could be no viable alternative. She dashed inside the orphanage and grabbed the few things that belonged to her.
— James A. Michener, Centennial
My dreams may be nonsense too,but I do not want to run the risk of not following them
— Anamika Mishra
God reveals your destiny through synchronicity.
— Rabia Noorstani
Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in.
— John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town
Do what you want to do in life and you will see what life will do to you on earth. What you always do, pays what it always pays!
— Israelmore Ayivor
A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.
— Nathan McCall, Them
The simplest formular for a fulfilled life is
—  God+Wisdom+Industry! God is the source of your destiny and purpose
Your faith today, whether great, small or none controls your destiny tomorrow
— Fred Phillips III, The Numbers Talk
So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals.
— John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town
In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character isn't destiny any more. Economy is destiny. Ideology is destiny. Bombs are destiny. What does a famine, a gas chamber, a grenade care how you lived your life? Crisis comes, death comes, and your pathetic individual self doesn't have a thing to do with it, only to suffer the effects.
— Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
I feel like you're my destiny, you're my everything and I think I have to thank her for that. Don't ever leave me, okay? 'Cause if you do, I think you might just take a bit of my soul with you.
— Shelly Pratt, Sanctuary of Mine
Some people were born to the shape they would occupy all their lives.("Wait")
— Conrad Williams, Best New Horror 23
If two people are destined to be together, they will bump to each other and fall in love in the RIGHT PLACE and in the RIGHT time.
— shielabsyou
There's that day when you realize that everything that happened before that one person found you, probably happened to prepare you and to prepare everything, for that person's arrival. It's not that everything suddenly "makes sense" but it's more that you understand why this didn't work and that didn't work and you fell into this ditch and you broke a certain bone somewhere. It's so they'd find you. Or so that you'd find them. So you'd find each other.
— C. JoyBell C.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
— Anthony Liccione
My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind.
— Mozzie white collar
It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone
— Israelmore Ayivor
Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.
— Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
Stop comparing yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are uniquely pottered and purposed by our maker!
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha