Fate Quotes - Page 24

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date with destiny. Don't be late." I brushed some hair out of my eyes. Is that a movie quote? Or is it an actual date? I don't remember destiny asking me. I never even gave destiny my phone number.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.

To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

I do believe in fate.

For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.