Destiny Quotes

Live this life as gently as you would breathe in the seaside air. Then release all those dreams and wonders to the water. Keep breathing until you’re inches from where you wish to be. Then exhale, remembering that gentle life you grew up from.

~ F.k. Preston

We are in this world to fulfill a specific sacred mission.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We created not only to exist but to fulfill a sacred mission.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Live your life to fullness of your sacred existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Death is the destiny of every man. Every man must know this to live wisely.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.

~ Suzy Kassem

You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.

~ Suzy Kassem

Once You Realize your Purpose in Life, do whatever it Takes within Good means in order to Fulfill your Destiny. This is Your Life, No One can Live it for You. The Journey is Yours.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.

~ Adib Khan

Until you make a destiny defining decision, you can't move from where you are to the rightful place you should be.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.

~ Kōji Suzuki

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it’s less about joining a race and more about actually creating one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

You can elevate yourself to higher self by devotion to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

~ A.j. Darkholme

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

~ Guy Gavriel Kay

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

~ Gautama Buddha

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of triesto get there.

~ J.r. Ward

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

~ Garth Nix

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

~ Hermann Hesse

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

~ Salman Rushdie

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

~ Garth Stein

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

~ Nicholas Sparks

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

~ Jim Butcher

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

~ Gautama Buddha

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

~ Haruki Murakami

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

~ Bob Dylan

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

~ Cheryl Strayed

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

~ Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

~ Philip Pullman

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

~ Simon Van Booy

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?

~ Thomas Merton

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

~ Jeanette Winterson