Some people were born to the shape they would occupy all their lives.(“Wait”)

I’m not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one’s efforts. I’m not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it’s the right...

We are Darwin’s confetti. Some of us fall on bare rock. No matter how good you are, you can fail spectacularly. Just because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Or just...

Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think that the world of life (or whatever) is this place where everything is...

If I’d been a cowboy, it might’ve ended well.Somewhere on the ramble, I’m sure I’d have to sellMy guns along the highway. My coins to the table To make a gambler’s double, I’d double debts...

Let you limitation fuel your determination to work on your strengths.

Without adversity and trials we may never know what we are capable of.

In this game against fate, I am losing. Miserably.

When an orphan is depressed,” wrote Wilbur Larch, “he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise, it keeps you on your toes by making you suddenly responsible for what...

The sun shall lead you in the day.The stars will guide you at night.

The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in borders of mercy. The yellows are dyed with the ocher of silence. There...

And now I do believe in fate. Especially the kind we make ourselves.

Beware what you speak,’ said the Merlin very softly, ‘for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong...

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

Pero, cómo pudo Lu Wenli irse con el profesor Liu? -pregunté-. ¡Es inconcebible!-Acaso era concebible meterle la pelota en la boca de un requetazo? -replicó He Zhiwu.Indudablemente, eso formaba parte de las cosas inconcebibles, lo...

Our destinies are riddled with challenges that have a tendency to ruin well laid plans. Many have attempted to take fate into their own hands and have been unsuccessful in changing it.Others find that their...

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn’t been poured into her, she would have been happier–it goes without saying–but less of a person. She...

Love and trust are so powerful. They can literally change the fate of a person.

People meet when they need to meet.

There is no gravity. The only thing holding me to this planet is you.

Damn you to Lolth’s web!” he said. “Don’t you dare pretend if doesn’t matter to you!” “Why do you care?” Drizzt growled back at him. “No one who has ever made a diffence?” “Do you...

I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing...

Insanity, thy name is woman

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

I now warn the reader not to mock me and my mental daze. It is easy for him and me to decipher now a past destiny; but a destiny in the making is, believe me,...

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn’t know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a...

Wer sich vornimmt, Gutes zu wirken, darf nicht erwarten, dass die Menschen ihm deswegen Steine aus dem Weg räumen, sondern muss auf das Schicksalshafte gefasst sein, dass sie ihm welche daraufrollen.

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you…

All live to die, and rise to fall.

Uit deze belevenissen, die niemand ziet, bestaat de innerlijke, wezenlijke lijn van ons lot. Zulk een breuk en scheur groeit weer dicht, hij heelt en wordt vergeten, maar in de diepst verborgen hoek leeft en...

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science....

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was...

There’s no short-cut in life but with right knowledge, you can fast-track things to come to pass.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it...

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.

My name’s Sean, Jem. I’m Sean.

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he’d been waiting for her. And there she was.

Svijet je jedno veliko tkanje, i u njemu je sve slučajno. Ne postoje zakonitosti, ne postoje pravila. U tom tkanju mi smo niti i čvorići, linije koje se neshvatljivom logikom, u kojoj možda ima i...

We have been called by God; we must live life worthy of our calling.

Fulfilling your divine passion brings gladness.

Inherent within your soul is a greater light, recognize and radiate it.

The case for interconnectedness between conscious human lives is hard to deny.

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

Fate determines a man’s beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end.

Fate,” Blue replied, glowering at her mother, “is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.