Destiny

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”

― Steve Maraboli

tags: destiny, happiness, history, inspirational, let-go, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-on, success3665 likesLike

John Lennon

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”

― John Lennon

tags: beatles, destiny, fate, life2772 likesLike

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: destiny, self-determination2268 likesLike

Guy Gavriel Kay

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”

― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

tags: destiny, path2102 likesLike

L.J. Smith

“I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

― L.J. Smith

tags: destiny, james, love, nightworld, soulmate1780 likesLike

Gautama Buddha

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

― Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha

tags: alone, buddha, buddhism, destiny, fate, future, lone, past, path, present, save, saying, walk1690 likesLike

Alice Sebold

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

tags: destiny, dreams, epiphany, re-direction, re-thinking1461 likesLike

J.R. Ward

“Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries

to get there.”

― J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

tags: destiny, fate1389 likesLike

William Jennings Bryan

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

― William Jennings Bryan

tags: achieved, change, choice, destiny1322 likesLike

Haruki Murakami

“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: destiny, friendships, relationships1181 likesLike

Andrew Boyd

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”

― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

tags: compassion, destiny, empathy, pain, universe1151 likesLike

Garth Nix

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”

― Garth Nix, Sabriel

tags: destiny, path, questioning1007 likesLike

Thomas Merton

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”

― Thomas Merton, Love and Living

tags: connection, destiny, fate, life, love, meaning991 likesLike

Anaïs Nin

“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”

― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

tags: character, courage, destiny, empowerment, responsibility, self-control, self-improvement895 likesLike

Hermann Hesse

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: destiny, fate, fortune, learning-process, meaning, value879 likesLike

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: destiny818 likesLike

“You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.”

― Roy T. Bennett

tags: choice, choices, decision, decisions, destiny, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living813 likesLike

Nicholas Sparks

“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.”

― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

tags: destiny758 likesLike

Daisaku Ikeda

“Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.”

― Daisaku Ikeda

tags: buddhism, destiny, happiness, humanism, inspirational, karma, peace, self-reformation741 likesLike

Steve Maraboli

“Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, change, destiny, empowerment, inspirational, life, mistakes, motivational, success704 likesLike

Salman Rushdie

“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”

― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

tags: destiny, existence701 likesLike

Thomas Merton

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

― Thomas Merton

tags: destiny, life, purpose691 likesLike

Garth Stein

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”

― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: destiny, ignorance634 likesLike

David Levithan

“It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.

It just has to be.”

― David Levithan

tags: destiny, love627 likesLike

John O'Donohue

“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.”

― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

tags: destiny, soul561 likesLike

Seán O'Casey

“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

― Seán O'Casey

tags: destiny, drama, fate, humanity, humankind, humor, life, stage, theater, world550 likesLike

“I knew I loved you before I met you

I think I dreamed you into life

I knew I loved you before I met you

I have been waiting all my life”

― Savage Garden

tags: destiny, devotion, love526 likesLike

Nicholas Sparks

“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?”