“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone w…”— Bob Dylan, amazon.com
“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com