Destiny Quotes - Page 79

People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the end fate or destiny is seen as taking its toll. People die, to use a commonly used phrase, 'when their number's up'.

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

It is the great destiny of human science, not to ease man's labors or prolong his life, noble as those ends may be nor to serve the ends of power, but to enable man to walk upright without fear in a world which he at length will understand and which is his home.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.

Blood is not destiny.

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.

For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.

The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

Your happy destiny is unavoidable.

For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose - is choosing - its own destiny this instant.