Destiny Quotes

"One love, one heart, one destiny."

Bob Marley

"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."

Steve Maraboli

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."

John Lennon

"There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk."

Guy Gavriel Kay

"I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand."

L.J. Smith

"Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear."

Haruki Murakami

"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."

Shannon L. Alder

"Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end."

Daisaku Ikeda

"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"

Steve Maraboli

"If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt."

Jarod Kintz

"It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.It just has to be."

David Levithan

"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."

Thomas Merton

"Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love."

Shannon L. Alder

"I knew I loved you before I met youI think I dreamed you into lifeI knew I loved you before I met youI have been waiting all my life"

Savage Garden

"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey."

John O'Donohue

"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

J.K. Rowling

"You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it."

Goldie Hawn

"Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route."

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

"You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory."

Steve Maraboli

"Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs."

Terry Pratchett

"it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings."

Daisaku Ikeda

"To be invisible, paint yourself with the direct shade of zero. Leave nothing to chance, by taking nothing with you wherever you go."

Jarod Kintz

"We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die."

Douglas Coupland

"Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF."

Mandy Hale

"[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."

Lev Grossman

"Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself."

Daisaku Ikeda

"I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me."

C. JoyBell C.

"Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing."

C. JoyBell C.

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

Albert Einstein

"When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story."

Charles Baxter

"Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!"

Steve Maraboli

"Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you."

Mandy Hale

"Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not."

Ana Monnar

"I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street"

Stephen Hawking

"A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book."

Caroline Mytinger

"You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?"

Libba Bray

"I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice."

Jeanette Winterson

"Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil."

Daisaku Ikeda

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

Albert Schweitzer

"You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was."

Anthon St. Maarten

"Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will"

Jack Welch

"She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her."

Rick Riordan

"Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have."

Kevin Brockmeier

"...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves."

Suzanne Young

"When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be."

Jarod Kintz

"I believe the way to master my destiny is to serve others. If I raise up others, am I not also raised up?"

Jarod Kintz

"Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!"- Gol D. Roger"

Eiichiro Oda

"No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?"

Steve Maraboli

"Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be."

Jennifer Elisabeth

"A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny."

Michel Faber

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