You don’t get to choose who handles your heart. There are simply people who were born with it in their teeth. When you meet them, it is best to build a bomb shelter.
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Quotes tagged ‘Destiny’
And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don’t have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It’s knowing you could be the author instead.
I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
Your destiny isn’t tied to the people who walked away.
So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
— Rumi, amazon.com
Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached.
One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.
Those years weren’t lost. They simply weren’t the way I’d planned them.
I don’t think that anything happens by coincidence. No one is here by accident. Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason.
I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.
Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.
Fate is cruel but maybe not random.
Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.
There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive