“Fate doesn’t guarantee us a happy ending. We’re not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn’t some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.”— Claudia Gray, amazon.com
“Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.com
“Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.”— Shannon A. Thompson, amazon.com
“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 the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.”— Clarice Lispector, amazon.com
“Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.”— Tiffanie DeBartolo, amazon.com
“Life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you.”— Nafisa Haji, amazon.com
“That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.”— Jasper Fforde, amazon.com
“'What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. To move on toward your destiny.”— Alyson Noël, amazon.com
“Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.”— Darren Shan, amazon.com
“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”— Susan Gregg Gilmore, amazon.com
“Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.”— Nadia Scrieva, amazon.com
“Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.”— Steven Erikson, amazon.com
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up e…”— Kevin Brockmeier, amazon.com
“No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your own destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”— Libba Bray, amazon.com
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.”— Philip Pullman, amazon.com