Quotes about Destiny
I failed my exam in some subjects but my friend passed. Now he's an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner.
— Bill Gates
"Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be."
— Joel Osteen
If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was.
— Albert Schweitzer
"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
— Khalil Gibran
Well, honey, everybody has to die sometime.
— Wendell Berry
You see, we don't have enough sense to make these decisions. Somehow, you just get led to where you're supposed to be, if you're willing to submit.
— Wendell Berry
But in his dream he knew their way was prepared, and in their time they would rise up joyful.
— Wendell Berry
And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.
— Wendell Berry
All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.
— William Faulkner
I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.
— William Faulkner
The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the plunge of its precipice, not that the State and the South knew it, because the first seconds of fall always seem like soar.
— William Faulkner
There are good men everywhere, at all times. Most men are. Some are just unlucky, because most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. And I've known some that even the circumstances couldn't stop. ~from 'Delta Autumn
— William Faulkner