quotations about destiny
Both body and life are predetermined, and the man has nothing to say in the matter: the individual is predetermined by the Great Will. The man is thus predestined, through the fact of his individuality, to a possible specific destiny; but, after the individuality is determined, he is given over to his own will, and his destiny is put into his own hands.
JOHN PHELPS FRUIT
"The Destiny of Marriage: Portia and the Caskets"
There can be no exit from manifest destiny.
MICK FARREN
Darklost
Motive is causative, work is operative, destiny is resultant.
THOMAS ROBERT SLICER
Meditations
A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
"Kismet"
God is the author and finisher of your destiny. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of your destiny. He is the only one that can show you your destiny. As far as He is your manufacturer, He is the only one that can show you what you are fashioned to do.
HARRISON ENUDI
Fulfilling Your Destiny with Ease
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
CESARE PAVESE
The Burning Brand
Destiny, the complicity of mankind in the self-disclosure of Being, must be freely chosen.
RICHARD ROJCEWICZ
The Gods and Technology
Come to me
This is Destiny
Right now
Sing my song
Come along
Right now
SCHILLER
"Destiny", Voyage
Ah me, thou Destiny,
Giver of evil gifts.
AESCHYLUS
The Seven Against Thebes
The paradoxical nature of any revolt against destiny becomes clear when a person asks what his life would have been like if someone other than his actual father had begotten him; he forgets, of course, that in that case he would not have been "himself," that the person undergoing this different destiny would have been someone else entirely so that it would no longer be possible to speak of "his" destiny. The question of the possibility of a different destiny is therefore untenable in itself, self-contradictory and meaningless.
VIKTOR EMIL FRANKL
The Doctor and the Soul
Hit hard and you don't stop coming
Don't wait for the sands of time are running
Towards destiny
TIGER ARMY
"Towards Destiny"
Destiny is the final end God has prepared for my journey. The vehicle that God has prepared to bring me to my destiny is my purpose on earth. God has wrapped up my destiny inside my purpose. No one can ever attain their God given destiny without first discovering his or her purpose. The reason God has made us here on earth.
BEN N. ISRAEL
15 Secrets You Crave to Know
Motive is a thread, work is a skein, destiny is a maze.
THOMAS ROBERT SLICER
Meditations
Realizing a destiny is not a matter of acquiescing in some form of relentless causality. If it were, there would be no sin. A destiny can be failed or refused. That is why it is not a fate. True, the very word "destiny" is indicative of necessity, but the necessity of a destiny is not like the necessity that makes an object fall when it is dropped. Rather, it is the kind I recognize when I face a duty I am tempted to evade and say to myself, "This I must do."
GREGORY WOLFE
The New Religious Humanists
Destiny
Has once again surprised me
Oh destiny
Must want you here beside me
GLORIA ESTEFAN
"Destiny"
Motive is internal, work is external, destiny is eternal.
THOMAS ROBERT SLICER
Meditations
Destiny is in reality a pompous word that means very little. If we have great talents, it will probably be our destiny to show them. If we have no talents, it will certainly be our destiny to show none.
ANONYMOUS
The Spectator, Aug. 2, 1884
I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.
ROGER ZELAZNY
Isle of the Dead
God will not bless the self-absorbed with positions of influence if their concept of destiny is about what they bring to the table instead of why He brought them to the table. The harvest is too ripe, too ready to be reaped. The hour is too late and the issue too critical for the Lord to allow His harvest to rot in the fields while His sons and daughters wrestle with one another over whose destiny is the greatest. It is not about us, it is all about Him!
HOWARD L. BASS
Your Best Is Yet to Come!
As we blossom or awaken, we begin to notice there is a force in the world that seems to be operating and leading us into a certain destiny. And it's very much a kind of detective effort on our own part to figure out what these things mean. The synchronicity is essentially a meaningful coincidence that brings us information at just the right time. While leading us forward, it also feels very inspiring and destined in a way. It feels like we're on a path of unfolding in our own personal evolution.
JAMES REDFIELD
interview, Awareness Magazine