Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. – Jawaharlal Nehru
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. – Kin Hubbard
Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forester
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. – William McFee
Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. – Diana Trilling
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. – Author Unknown
Fate laughs at probabilities. – Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
A door that seems to stand open must be a man’s size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him. – Henry Ward Beecher
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. – Jean de La Fontaine
The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. – Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949
You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he’ll do you one better and he’ll kick a whole wall down. – Glee, “Furt” (season 2, episode 8, original airdate November 23, 2010), written
Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius
Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate,” which is in fact your life. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap. – Terri Guillemets
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The pulse of destiny still shook the foundations of the world. The will that had willed this thing to happen had now another will to deal with—nor should the stream of Fate swallow up his heart without a cry. – Frederic Jesup Stimson, In Cure of Her Soul, 1906, wording slightly altered
There is an unseen life that dreams us. It knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize and we need have no fear of change. – John O’Donohue
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
