Demands Quote by Gertudis Gomez De Avellaneda

“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.”

— Christopher Paolini

“I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs…

— Christopher Paolini

“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented…

— Henry Miller

“Given the choice, whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire; or to challenge the fates for another throw - a better throw -…

— Amy Hennig

Let your mind be its own and enjoy what you can not all things in life are in need of a plan.

— Jamie Timbre

God's plans are never beyond your reach, sometimes you just have to move closer.

— Justin Lee Riner

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I AM ALL ABOUT SELF-DETERMINATION. Will. Control. I determine my path in life. I decide my failures and successes. Screw fate. Destiny can kiss…

— Emma Chase

“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my…

— Aldous Huxley

“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

— Stephen King

You can't choose what stays and what stays away.

— Florence Welch

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”

— Idries Shah