Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded

The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

What’s the world’s greatest lie?’ the boy asked, completely surprised.’It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s...

For fate the willing leads, the unwilling drags along.

It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough...

Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better.

Cathy, don’t look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn’t mean we aredoomed. Let’s go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of...

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

What’s meant to be will always find a way

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

If you make a person believe that his misfortune in this birth is due to his sins in his previous birth, he will resign himself to his fate and not vent his fury on society...

We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.

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

The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more power to change your fate than you do. It’s then that you’re gonna...

If you wish to be happy, Eragon, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able...

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his...

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel…

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like...

How much better it would be, she thinks, if the world were ruled by chance and not a God.

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.

ChinaWhales followthe whale-roads.Geese, roads of magnetized air.To go great distance,exactitudes matter.Yet how oftenthe heartthat set out for Peruarrives in China,Steering hard.consulting the chartsthe whole journey.

We have the keys to open the Heavens door; Bible reading and prayer.

You don’t have to compete with any one. Seek to outdo your own performance. You will always be happy.

Even if the decisions one made on a given day seemed crazy, it helped to think that all things happened for a mysterious reason.

Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.

I’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.)

Is not our capacity to choose, to chase, to dream of becoming other than we are, more powerful then the patterns of the stars?

One wouldn’t wish to tempt fate

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.

I have chosen a life that depends on one’s awareness that every breath may be his last, every step may bring his downfall, and every word may stir betrayal. In truth, I must live in...

Cold comradeship do stars provide.They light the closer, inner sideOf night’s vast weight, which, chill and clear,Pulls on us like some puppeteer.Its unseen threads to heads and heartsAttached, it acts us through our parts,From birth’s...

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and...

What once was had, forever lost; thy fate is destined, thy love star-crossed.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter’s waking thoughts.

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

Pandora’s Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though...

I spent so much time thinking about regret. Regret and its accompanying conviction that there is a perfect, placid life, one’s own alternate existence, pristine and simple, existing in a neighboring reality in which certain...

Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding...

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

Our destination isn’t clear. All I know is that I want to get there together. The Unknown is scary. I’ll always have some fear about what’s going to happen next. The thing is, the unknown...

I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in the club and the deep anxiety they betrayed to me, an anxiety that...

La asesina porque lo lleva escrito en su sino, no hay más vuelta de hoja, solamente eso…

And I’m trying to stay strong. I really, really am. But he smells so damn good, and his lips are just right there… all soft and inviting, and all I can think about is having...

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.