Destiny Quotes - Page 36

• I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

  Alfred the Great

  Purpose, Embrace, Doom

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 5

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• One God, one law, one element,
  And one far-off divine event,
  To which the whole creation moves.

  Alfred the Great

  Moving, Law, Events

  In Memoriam epilogue, st. 36 (1850)

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• I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Men, Joy

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• Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Believe, Dark, Artist

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

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• Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Prudent, Failing, Forethought

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• Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, May, Grind

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• We are but as the instrument of Heaven.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Heaven, Instruments

  "Clytemnestra". Poem by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (Part XIX), 1859.

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• In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

  Hannah Szenes

  Events, Needs, Chains

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• The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Civilization, Cities

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• Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Retirement, Flower, Ambition

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• I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Education, Instruction, Nations

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• Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

  John le Carre

  Luck

  "The Mission Song". Book by John le Carre, September 2006.

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• There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Pride, Men, Two

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• Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Events, Demand, March

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• Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit? Then start by proclaiming, "This is what I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I'm going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!

  Tony Robbins

  Today Is The Day, Quality, Spirit

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Enemy, Consciousness, Oneself

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• We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Marriage, Spiritual, Ideas

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• Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.

  Wayne Dyer

  Single Mom, Ideas, Hallucinations

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• For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose - is choosing - its own destiny this instant.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Soul

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.

  Northrop Frye

  Real, Mean, Men

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.416, University of Toronto Press

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• The irrevocable Hand
  That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
  The portals of our earthly destinies;
  We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
  Close after us, for ever.
  
  Pause, my soul,
  On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound
  Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
  Our human moans make on the shores of Time.
  O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
  That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Men, Doors, Hands

  "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

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• There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Certain, Providence

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• Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Karma, Fate, Men

  Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003). “Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism”, p.38, Himalayan Academy Publications

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• Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

  Amelia Barr

  Surprise

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• But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Challenges, Society, Finals

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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