Quotes about Destiny

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human beings, as living storytellers; but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward being a better character. I believe there is a writer outside ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even, and whispering a better story into our consciousness.

Storybrand Principle Six: Every human being is trying to avoid a tragic ending.

Providence is the way God leads the man who will not be led.

If it really was true that all would sooner or later reach heaven, and hell sooner or later be emptied of inhabitants, it never could be said that it would have been "good for a man not to have been born." Hell itself would lose its terrors, if it had an end. Hell itself would be endurable, if after millions of ages there was a HOPE of freedom and of heaven.

Remember that your life is a story. Why not write your own ending-and then make it happen.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.