“Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves”— Marissa Meyer, amazon.com
“Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.”— J.R. Ward, amazon.com
“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”— Julia Glass, amazon.com
“Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.”— Nick Joaquín, amazon.com
“Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?”— Edith Pearlman, amazon.com
“That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognize it from random life?”— David Baddiel, amazon.com
“Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.”— Jennifer Haigh,, amazon.com
“Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.”— Kelly Thompson, amazon.com
“At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.”— Tim LaHaye, amazon.com
“Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a moun…”— Lois McMaster Bujold, amazon.com
“No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.”— Takayuki Yamaguchi, amazon.com
“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Destiny is not one push, she thought as she waited to cross a quiet street on that cold Paris evening years later, but a thousand small moments that through insight and hard work you line up in the right direction, like the magnet does the metal shavings.”— Robert M. Edsel, amazon.com
“Our destiny is aligned with our heart's innermost longing, a longing embedded within our soul before birth. This longing is a unique pattern or configuration reminiscent of the constellations in the night sky. When we express (press out) our unique configuration, it shines through us with an otherwo…”— Thea Euryphaessa,, amazon.com