Destiny = our free will + God’s free will – Terri Guillemets
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like. – Lemony Snicket
I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. – P.G. Wodehouse
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. – P.G. Wodehouse
Whose madness was a challenge hurled at fate… – Edgar Fawcett, “At a Window,” Songs of Doubt and Dream, 1891
Fate loves the fearless. – James Russell Lowell
If you do not do what you are supposed to do in life, the universe will do it for you. – Kim Russo, “The Haunting Of… Meat Loaf” (original airdate 2015 October 22n
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. – Philip Pullman
Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. – Ursula K. Le Guin
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You are fate’s shadow or fate’s sun, depending on which way you turn. – Terri Guillemets
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. – Lucan
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. – W.B. Yeats
[O]ne of my favorite Sufi poems… says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. – Elizabeth Gilbert
O! I am fortune’s fool. – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. – Charlotte Brontë
Life calls the tune, we dance. – John Galsworthy
When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate. – Carl Jung
Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
