Destiny Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar Download Open image “A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.” — Marguerite Yourcenar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destiny Insanity Madness Thinking
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“Destiny stays stuck in the cage of words and thoughts if it is not pulled by the effective and planed efforts with the touch… — Mohsin Ali Shaukat Copy Share Image
We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny. — David Richo Copy Share Image
Destiny is something people invented... because they can't stand the fact that everything that happens is the result of their choice. — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
“What is Destiny? Is it a doctrine formulated by aristocrats and philosophers arguing that there is some unseen driving force predicting the outcomes of… — Ivan Rusilko Copy Share Image
I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?” — Pat Shand Copy Share Image
“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the vote they had taken as children was a joke. There was no turning back, never had been. They were on a track as preordained as the memory-track which had caused him to look up when he… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Destiny is the ordained intention God has sacredly prepared with your name on it.” — John S. Lynch Copy Share Image