“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.” — Tarjei Vesaas Copy Share Image
“Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I fear no fate for l am radiant with light I win regardless with Jesus in me , For l am in… — Sikhwetha maanda Copy Share Image
Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...we are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
At the end of this journey, we go back from where we came. Regardless of our apparent differences, we are all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.” — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You have to see fate as a design, a pattern, and the will as the knife, the blade, the thing slicing through… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“That’s the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate,” he says. “That’s what’s beautiful about being a miner:… — Héctor Tobar Copy Share Image
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
If something is meant to be, theres no need to rush. It will happen in the right time with the right person… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine. — Andrew X. Pham Copy Share Image
She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“No, I’m not running. Cowards run, and I’m not a coward. A coward would have stayed behind. A coward would have waited… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
“Raise the sky. We got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
Coincidentally since the inception of the world there has never been a coincidental success, we all become what we think, say and… — Nwori Joshua Copy Share Image
