“Whatever you do, keep following your bliss. Be honest. Pay attention. Seek joy. That is the key to unlocking your destiny.”
Source: The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
“Sometimes, it's a roll of life's dice that determines what sort of life that you have.”
“We are complete in the womb itself, she thought in terror. We only unfold.”
Source: A Game of Hide and Seek
“Free will, as C.S. Lewis said, 'is the modus operandi of destiny'. Fate, too, chooses one's fellow hotel guests. I cursed mine inaudibly.”
Source: Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
“Had we but world enough, and time”
Source: To His Coy Mistress
“Man's powers, if properly exerted, only follow his Destiny, but Destiny alone is incapable of conferring any good where Exertion is wanting.”
Source: The Mahabarata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - BOOK IX - SHALYA-PARVA
“The cosmic battle being worked out between God and the Devil takes place in the lives of God's creatures, fallen though they are. They are His chosen instruments.
Were the Rohirrim destined to come at just that moment? Yes. Were they free people? Yes. Were they more or less free because they were stepping...into their destiny? More. If God has prepared good works for us to walk in, then it is a joy and a wonder to walk in them.
If God is working in us both to will and to work for His good pleasure, then it is our delight and our fulfillment to realize that we are doing exactly what was planned for us to do all along.”
Source: The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings
“Destiny obscures human purposes like everything else human, just as if it were a muddy river-bottom swallowing pebbles.”
Source: Guide to Greece, Volume 2: Southern Greece
“Somewhere at the back of your mind is a blueprint of the real life you feel you ought to be living. Now and again a moment from this life breaks through into the everyday.”
Source: Byron and Shelley
“We dwell on the past thinking we could have been better or done something better. The reality is that you could never be better or do something better because some people never change and whatever is meant to be, will be.”
Source: Watch Out! It's Nolan! (A Courageous Tale About a Boy Who Overcame His Bullies by Being Fearless and Standing up for Himself).