Fate Quotes - Page 32

• Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.

  Dave Pelzer

  Support, Draws, Knows

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• I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

  John Perkins

  Exercise, Choices, Twists

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.

  Paul Auster

  Men, Long, Life And Death

  Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.182, Macmillan

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• To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

  Epictetus

  Self, Cities, Discipline

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• I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

  Christopher Paolini

  Falling In Love, Morbid, Eragon

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I refuse to believe this was my fate. I was not meant to be this. I was never meant to be..." The pain in his eyes tore through her. "This can't be all I was born for.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Believe, Eye

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Hands, Grace, Tasks

  Yasmine Galenorn (2006). “Witchling: An Otherworld Novel”, p.274, Penguin

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• I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Sorry, Self

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• If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Army

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 45), 1955.

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• Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  May, Fool, Life Is

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• Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?

  Pittacus Lore

  Coincidence, Chalk, Explanation

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• We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

  David Levithan

  Monday, Morning, Believe

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• as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Believe, Destiny, Said

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• One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.

  Stefan Zweig

  Book, Order, Oblivion

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.126, Pushkin Press

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• As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Grows

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• He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Agony, Olympus, Boring

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.184, Macmillan

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• Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hate, Men, Keys

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.358, Macmillan

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• Not saving you from this storm, mutant,” he said. “Saving you for your later fate, we are.” His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. “Oh, good. Yoda captured us,” Fang whispered.

  James Patterson

  Voice, Storm, Mutants

  James Patterson (2008). “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning”, p.226, Random House

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• Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.

  Rick Riordan

  Wise, Blessed, Hero

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• But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.

  Mitch Albom

  Way, Connected

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

  Rick Riordan

  Goes On, World, Quests

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• Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate

  Rick Riordan

  Karma, Trying, Strange

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• Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.

  Stephen Crane

  Kings, Children, Men

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1312, Library of America

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• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Team, Fighting, Winning

  Jonathan Haidt (2016). “Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind”, p.46, Vintage

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• Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Sense Of Humor, Twisted

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2002). “Midnight Predator”, p.64, Delacorte Press

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