Fate 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 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

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

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

~ Charles Stross

I’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.)

~ Laini Taylor

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

~ Nicholas Sparks

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

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

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

~ Alexander Pushkin

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

~ Jeanette Winterson

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Character is destiny

~ Heraclitus

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The wind god Favonius had warned him in Croatia: If you let your anger rule you … your fate will be even sadder than mine. But how could his fate be anything but sad? Even if he lived through this quest, he would have to leave both camps forever. That was the only way he would find peace. He wished there was another option – a choice that didn’t hurt like the waters of the Phlegethon – but he couldn’t see one.

~ Rick Riordan

The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

~ Jeanette Winterson

I shall seize fate by the throat.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or simply cause a change in the air so that a fly ends up where it might never have gone otherwise. And if we think of the same example but with ourselves in the role of the insect, and the larger universe in the role we've just played, it's perfectly clear that we're affected every day by forces over which we have no more control than the poor beetle has over our gigantic foot as it descends upon it. What are we to do? We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

~ Arthur Golden

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

~ Andrew Carnegie

Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It wasn't like they didn't understand each other. They understood each other better than anyone else, and each was focused solely on the other.

~ Gen Urobuchi

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

~ Haruki Murakami

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

~ Clarice Lispector

..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

~ Laini Taylor

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

~ Rafael Sabatini

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

~ Tiffanie Debartolo

I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.

~ Paulo Coelho

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

~ Joan Bauer

‎Destiny finds those who listen, and fate finds the rest.

~ Marshall Masters