50 Quotes About Destiny and Fate: Will it Find its Way?

Quotes About Destiny and Fate

Do we control our lives, or is it already written? Do you believe in destiny or fate or you believe more in Free Will?

Here are 50 Quotes about Destiny and Fate that will help you decide about that.

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” William Shakespeare

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” Allen Saunders

“One love, one heart, one destiny.” Robert Marley

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.” Lemony Snicket

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” Steve Maraboli

“What’s meant to be will always find a way” Trisha Yearwood

“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…” John Lennon

“Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” Dante Alighieri

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” Rick Riordan

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.” Guy Gavriel Kay

“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.” Fannie Flagg

“I told you. You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.” L.J. Smith

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” Amy Tan

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” Gautama Buddha

“It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” William Ernest Henley

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.” Alice Sebold

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.” Joseph Conrad

“Some things are destined to be — it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.” J.R. Ward

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” William Jennings Bryan

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.” Julia Glass

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” Andrew Boyd

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.” Lisa Kleypas

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?” Garth Nix

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” Marcus Aurelius

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” Thomas Merton

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” Oscar Wilde

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” Hermann Hesse

“Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.” Marissa Meyer

“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.” Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“…some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.” Suzanne Young

“You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.” Roy T. Bennett

“It’s no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.” Somerset Maugham

“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.” Nicholas Sparks

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.” Daisaku Ikeda

“Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you’ll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you’ll survive” Cassandra Clare

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.” Thomas Merton

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.” Emery Allen

“Don’t confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!” Steve Maraboli

“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.” Stephanie Garber

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.” Garth Stein

“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” Jennifer Elisabeth

“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.” John O’Donohue

“Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.” Charlotte Brontë

“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” Seán O’Casey

“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?” Nicholas Sparks

“Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.” Haruki Murakami

“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.” Bryce Courtenay