Destiny Quotes · Page 194

"Fate permitting" is a standard Stoic phrase meant to remind ourselves that planning things is up to us, but the ultimate outcomes…

— Massimo Pigliucci

I think the idea of freedom or liberty is really misused for political reasons, but it's something that resonates with people to…

— Shepard Fairey

“The sun would still rise, the seasons would still come, life would continue. I was thankful to have been a part of…

— Sara Niles

Surfers are the ‘throw-aheads’ of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are…

— Timothy Leary

“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born.…

— Oswald Spengler

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a…

— Andre Maurois

In the Eastern way of thinking, so much about In-Yun is something that comes to you. Destiny is something that comes to…

— Celine Song

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back…

— Chris Pine

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my…

— Henry Miller

Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals,…

— Tony Hsieh

We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of…

— Octavia Butler

Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice,…

— Thomas Raymond Kelly

For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces,…

— Joseph Campbell

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What…

— Alija Izetbegovic

“Emotions are unreliable, dangerous, and misleading. Fate is for fools who believe in fairytales. I didn’t buy into the whole princess dream…

— Jewel E. Ann

“No, I do not believe in fate, that some spirits of the heavens weave the laws of the world to make it…

— Mary-Jean Harris

I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground,…

— Karen Kingsbury

“If your boss asks you to do a task... You'll stay late for work to make sure it's done. You'll be confident…

— Yvonne Pierre

Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e.…

— David Foster Wallace

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to…

— Anonymous

“All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Although in one sense a belief in meticulous providence—that nothing happens apart from what God has planned, intended, and willed for the…

— Bruce R. Reichenbach

“I don’t believe in fate … but… I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning…

— Julie Kagawa

You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face…

— Darren Shan

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the…

— Steve Jobs

“What do we really know of other people's souls. Of their struggles, dreams, or tempations. For there is only one soul who…

— C.S. Lewis

“For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those…

— Tom Conrad

Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low…

— Philippa Gregory

The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn…

— Anonymous

“What destiny is there, but to sense, observe, merge, re-emerge, Empty, yet filled, spreading everywhere, inside, outside, in, Pulsing, fluctuating, breathing as…

— Jay Woodman

The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's…

— Anonymous

Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from…

— Bill Vaughan

“A geas was a contract with the goddess of Fate. Sometimes one was born indentured, other times it was bestowed upon one…

— Nenia Campbell

To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh…

— Aberjhani

Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality.…

— Bob Marley

“I know. I'm sorry. I think you might be right, though. Maybe there isn't such a thing as fate. Maybe it's just…

— Marissa Meyer

If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when…

— William Greider