Quotes about Fate

I have the 'L'.You have the 'O'.Fate has the 'V'.Together we have the 'E'.How then can we deny we are in LOVE?

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Fate bestows its rewards on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them.

The sure path can only lead to death.

I am neither spurred on by excessive optimism nor in love with high ideals, but am merely concerned with the fate of the individual human being - that infinitesimal unit on whom a world depends, and in whom, if we read the meaning of the Christian message aright, even God seeks his goal.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We're dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph. Our cards determine who we are: age, gender, race, family, nationality, etc., and we can't change them, only play them to the best of our abilities. The game is marked by challenges and chances, strategizing and cheating.

At the age of twenty-two, suspecting their time was limited, Ichimei and she had gorged on love to enjoy it to the full, but the more they tried to exhaust it, the wilder their desire became, and whoever says that every flame must sooner or later be extinguished is wrong, because there are passions that blaze on until destiny destroys them with a swipe of its paw, and even then hot embers remain that need only a breath of oxygen to be rekindled.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.