--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: Though you guard it well, what destiny…" description: "\"“Though you guard it well, what destiny does not decree disappears. Though you cast it aside, what fate calls yours will not depart.”\" — Tirukkural" image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/tirukkural-283491_destiny_though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-do_1682545.jpg" --- # Though you guard it well, what destiny does not decree… ![“Though you guard it well, what destiny does not decree disappears. Though you cast it aside, what fate calls yours will not depart.” quote by Tirukkural](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/tirukkural-283491_destiny_though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-do_1682545.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/tirukkural-283491_destiny_though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-do_1682545.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/tirukkural-283491_destiny_though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-do_1682545.jpg) > ““Though you guard it well, what destiny does not decree disappears. Though you cast it aside, what fate calls yours will not depart.”” [Tirukkural](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tirukkural/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. Destiny cannot be altered by force; what is meant to be will happen despite attempts to hide or reject it. **In simple terms:** Fate unfolds regardless of resistance. Key Takeaway Accept what cannot be changed. Themes Fate Destiny Acceptance Philosophy Mood philosophical reflective Type Destiny:1 Fate:1 Destiny Does:1 Guard Destiny:1 Aside Fate:1 Fate Calls:1 When to use this quote - Life planning - Relationship decisions - Career choices - Health goals Key Concepts Determinism Stoicism Kural Wisdom Questions to Reflect On - Do you believe you can change your destiny? - How does acceptance affect your actions? A Different Perspective Overemphasis on fate may reduce agency. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet [Aside Fate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aside-fate-971841/) [Destiny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/destiny/) [Destiny Does](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/destiny-does-617971/) [Fate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fate/) [Fate Calls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fate-calls-971842/) [Guard Destiny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guard-destiny-971840/) ## Related quotes > [“Only then, forced at six months to confront his destiny, does he begin to cry.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jhumpa-lahiri/only-then-forced-at-six-months-to-confront-his-destiny-does-he-begin/) [Jhumpa Lahiri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jhumpa-lahiri/) > [What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-harper/what-is-our-destiny-does-it-matter-is-it-bound-up-with-our-planet-in/) [Roy Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-harper/) > [Like I say, every child is born with his or her destiny; what he does with it is what matters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajesh-khattar/like-i-say-every-child-is-born-with-his-or-her-destiny-what-he-does/) [Rajesh Khattar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajesh-khattar/) > [“Destiny awaits, a darkness latent in the texture of the summer wind. Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you into the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/destiny-awaits-a-darkness-latent-in-the-texture-of-the-summer-wind/) [Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/) > [“Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/destiny-does-not-send-us-heralds-she-is-too-wise-or-too-cruel-for-that/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Destiny does not lead us in a straight line. As if to some silent music, people and events come into our lives. We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-gard/destiny-does-not-lead-us-in-a-straight-line-as-if-to-some-silent/) [Rosemary Gard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-gard/) > [Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/only-where-leader-and-led-together-bind-each-other-in-one-destiny/) [Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/) > [“Look, Daniel. Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-ruiz-zafon/look-daniel-destiny-is-usually-just-around-the-corner-like-a-thief-a/) [Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/) > [Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-ruiz-zafon/destiny-is-usually-just-around-the-corner-like-a-thief-a-hooker-or-a/) [Carlos Ruiz Zafon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/) > [Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wess-roberts/destiny-is-as-destiny-does-if-you-believe-you-have-no-control-then/) [Wess Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wess-roberts/) > [“Fathom the destiny that, does not just lay before you - but, awaits you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleesha/fathom-the-destiny-that-does-not-just-lay-before-you-but-awaits-you/) [Eleesha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleesha/) > [“YOU control your own destiny; nobody else does. YOU are responsible for where you go from here; nobody else is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darrin-donnelly/you-control-your-own-destiny-nobody-else-does-you-are-responsible-for/) [Darrin Donnelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darrin-donnelly/) > [You can't choose what stays and what stays away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-welch/you-can-t-choose-what-stays-and-what-stays-away/) [Florence Welch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-welch/) > [ Man blindly works the will of fate. \[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christoph-martin-wieland/man-blindly-works-the-will-of-fate-ger-blindlings-that-er-blos-den/) [Christoph Martin Wieland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/to-be-a-sufi-is-to-detach-from-fixed-ideas-and-from-preconceptions/) [Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/) ## More Destiny quotes > [... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/war-on-the-destiny-of-man-doom-on-the-sun-before-death-takes-you-o/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Anatomy is destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/anatomy-is-destiny/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/you-are-destiny-for-greatness-your-future-is-in-the-hands-of-the-lord/) [Lailah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-gifty-akita/) > [“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/to-be-a-sufi-is-to-detach-from-fixed-ideas-and-from-preconceptions/) [Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/) > [ Man blindly works the will of fate. \[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christoph-martin-wieland/man-blindly-works-the-will-of-fate-ger-blindlings-that-er-blos-den/) [Christoph Martin Wieland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christoph-martin-wieland/) > [There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/there-are-times-when-we-can-feel-destiny-close-around-us-like-a-fist/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-shand/it-s-morning-now-and-i-miss-the-soft-rasp-of-her-voice-already-ugh-i/) [Pat Shand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-shand/) > [You can't choose what stays and what stays away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-welch/you-can-t-choose-what-stays-and-what-stays-away/) [Florence Welch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-welch/) > [“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthon-st-maarten/failing-to-meet-your-true-destiny-is-a-tragic-act-of-free-will/) [Anthon St. Maarten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthon-st-maarten/) > [Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-kidman/somehow-destiny-comes-into-play-these-children-end-up-with-you-and/) [Nicole Kidman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-kidman/) > [“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/in-that-instant-it-all-seemed-to-come-clear-to-him-it-came-in-a/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Destiny is the ordained intention God has sacredly prepared with your name on it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-s-lynch/destiny-is-the-ordained-intention-god-has-sacredly-prepared-with-your/) [John S. Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-s-lynch/) > [“There is no interaction without God with interaction with men”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunday-adelaja/there-is-no-interaction-without-god-with-interaction-with-men/) [Sunday Adelaja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunday-adelaja/) > [We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-somehow-the-children-of-the-planet-we-are-somehow-its-finest/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/fate-and-future-both-are-servant-to-the-determined-for-they-are/) [Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/) [Browse all 7,925 Destiny quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/destiny/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Though you guard it well, what destiny does not decree disappears. Though you cast it aside, what fate calls yours will not depart.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tirukkural" }, "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tirukkural/though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-does-not-decree-disappears/", "about": { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Destiny" }, "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tirukkural/though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-does-not-decree-disappears/#quotation", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/tirukkural-283491_destiny_though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-do_1682545.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/tirukkural-283491_destiny_though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-do_1682545.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/tirukkural-283491_destiny_though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-do_1682545.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Though you guard it well, what destiny does not decree disappears. Though you cast it aside, what fate calls…” — Tirukkural", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Tirukkural", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tirukkural/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "“Though you guard it well, what...", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tirukkural/though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-does-not-decree-disappears/" } ], "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tirukkural/though-you-guard-it-well-what-destiny-does-not-decree-disappears/#breadcrumb" }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```