Quotes about Destiny

Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit

Reply to Objection 4: Even if by a special privilege their predestination were revealed to some, it is not fitting that it should be revealed to everyone; because, if so, those who were not predestined would despair; and security would beget negligence in the predestined.

A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" —C. S. LEWIS

On the other hand, if there is no God, then your life ultimately means nothing. Since there is no enduring purpose to life, there's no right or wrong way to live it. And it doesn't matter how you live or what you believe—your destiny is dust.

U]ntil his last breath no one can wrest from a man his freedom to take one or another attitude toward his destiny.

The destiny a person suffers therefore has a twofold meaning: to be shaped where possible, and to be endured where necessary.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden. For

It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from