quotations about destiny
We cannot always explain our destiny by referring to our moral worth; we may be cursed and blessed without justice behind either. Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.
SENECA
attributed, Consolations of Philosophy
Destiny isn't a matter of chance, but of choice, and what you choose to accept will eventually become yours.
KATIA WINTER
"The Sin Eater", Sleepy Hollow
Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.
GAI EATON
Islam and the Destiny of Man
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
attributed, In Pursuit of Destiny
Thou knowest not what destiny awaits thee. It is time thou shouldst learn to know thyself.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The Misanthrope
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
HENRY MILLER
attributed, The Harper Book of Quotations
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
WOODROW WILSON
speech, Apr. 6, 1912
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Destiny is not the same as fate. The word refers not to anything terrible or even to anything inevitable, in the usual sense of the word, but to the temporal and free unfolding of a person's essential being. A destiny is a spiritual drama.
GREGORY WOLFE
The New Religious Humanists
No one can live for me
No one can see the things I see
I walk this road
No one can tell me how to be
It's my destiny
LENNY KRAVITZ
"Destiny", Baptism/Lenny
Break this bittersweet spell on me
Lost in the arms of destiny bittersweet
I won't give up, I'm possessed by her
I'm bearing a cross she's turned into my curse
APOCALYPTICA
"Heat", Reflections
Often the steps we take to avoid destiny lead us to it.
JONATHAN AIBEL & GLENN BERGER
Kung Fu Panda
All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.
MAXIM GORKY
Untimely Thoughts
Destiny is the essence of worldly powers.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The trick in chasing destiny is to feel it as a rider, a rider on a spinning ball waiting for a rare chance in time. Those few moments of balance between darkness and light where the infinite is in motion and the motion is felt as a dance, as a solution that dissolves the question.
STEVE CASH
The Meq
With his unique destiny each man stands, so to speak, alone in the entire cosmos. His destiny will not recur. No one else has the same potentialities as he, nor will he himself be given them again. The opportunities that come his way for the actualization of creative or experiential values, the tribulations which are destined to come his way--which he cannot alter and must therefore endure and in the enduring of them actualize attitudinal values--all these are unique and singular.
VIKTOR EMIL FRANKL
The Doctor and the Soul
Well, destiny is dead
In the hands of bad luck
GREEN DAY
"Stuart and the Ave.", Insomniac
The stage is set
The cards have been dealt
He is now no more than a puppet
In the shadow of his own destiny
DJ SHADOW
"DJ Shadow's Theme"
Destiny represents the strength of our gifts that needs to be expressed in order to make our presence on Earth of value to others as well as ourselves.
CELIA C. JENNINGS
Resistance