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
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Quotes tagged ‘Destiny’
Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.
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.
Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you.
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.
Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?
What if destiny doesn't care?
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?
Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.
The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.
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.
Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.
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.
We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.
Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.
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…
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.
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
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.
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…