Destiny Quotes

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

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

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

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

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

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

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

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

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

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

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

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

Your destiny lies in your own hands. But remember it was God who deposited it there!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..

~ Judith Kinghorn

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

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

~ Rachel Kushner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.

~ Bill Courtney

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

To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Ugly is, as Ugly does!

~ Lorene Stunson Hill