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Destiny Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement,…
- Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever…
- Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the…
- Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and…
- There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend…
- 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…
- The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim…
- Teach your heart that this is destiny
- Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
- The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s…
- The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from…
- I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our…
- There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get…
- Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you…
- I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings…
More Destiny Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if… — Marcus Aurelius
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac
- I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. — Douglas Adams
- Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. — Dennis Banks
- Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education.… — Charles Barkley
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir
- It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. — Henry Ward Beecher