Fate Quotes - Page 14

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.

Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.