Fate Quotes - Page 58

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

Fate is not in man but around him

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye