“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”— Buddha, amazon.com
“The nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag.”— Donna Tartt, James “Hobie” Hobart, amazon.com
“Understand, by saying God, I am merely using God as reference to long-term pattern we can’t decipher. Huge, slow-moving weather system rolling in on us from afar, blowing us randomly.”— Donna Tartt, Boris Pavlikovsky, amazon.com
“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“You are a miracle that happened to someone else. A shooting star that went by on a night that by fate or by chance; I missed.”— Pat Pace, thoughtcatalog.com
“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”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“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
“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 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