Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.

Dennis Banks

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Deepak Chopra

I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.

Deepak Chopra

When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.

Charlotte Bronte

Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.

Charlotte Bronte

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Alan Rickman

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

David Brooks

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

Darren Shan

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

Darren Shan

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

Darren Shan

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

Cesare Pavese

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

Cesare Pavese

Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

Cesare Pavese

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

Cesare Pavese

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

Catherine Booth

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

Cary Grant

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

Carlos Slim

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

Chet Atkins

You shape your own destiny.

Charles Lamb

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

Charles Fourier

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.

Kurt Vonnegut

... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...

Unto whom can we turn and cry? By one's own actions, nothing can be done; destiny was pre-determined from the very beginning.

William Wordsworth

Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.

Beth Henley

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

Beth Moore

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Bob Marley

Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.

Che Guevara

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

Che Guevara

The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

Che Guevara

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.