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...

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.

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

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light...

The way two people can and everything place, find each other in a crowd, and change your life the lives of the people around them forever… It makes you believe in fate. In fate love...

I told you we were meant to be,” he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn’t see and now–Well, now I kiss him.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany’s final fate is at stake.

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow...

It seemed to him that there was a scarlet thread running through the fabric of life, one that joined events across the years, piercing human hearts and plunging underground, only to reemerge without warning, a...

Every life is a mystery. And every story of every life is a mystery. But it is not what happens that is the mystery. It is whether it has to happen no matter what, whether...

Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can...

I’ve been lonely for so long. And I’ve been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn’t have had to take all these detours to...

,No es posible que haya un “viento” incomprensible e invisible que nos llevara de un lado para otro, y determinara nuestras acciones, mientras que nosotros, en nuestra simpleza, creemos vivir bajo nuestra propia y libre...

We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.

,m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don’t want to be fated, I want to choose.

No matter what happens to you, you do not have to be bitter. You deserve to be happy.

May your life be illuminated by a spark of divinity.

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices,...

Fate is fait accompli

Dark rumblings inside told him he was in a tremendous amount of trouble. He didn’t know how it was going to manifest or when but it was coming, sure as Zeta would break the horizon...

Don’t act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

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.

Time’ is the most threatening four letter word.