Fate Quotes - Page 37

• A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Arrows, Honor

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• When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

  Georgette Heyer

  May, Limits

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “A Blunt Instrument”, p.118, Random House

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• The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

  Carl Jung

  Destiny, Detours, Way

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.184, Princeton University Press

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• Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

  Charlton Heston

  Destiny, Thinking, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in antiquity that one who desires, in any age, to take the position that apocalypse is at hand can easily defend it. He would not join that dour order; he would not worry about anything but Tempus, and the matter awaiting his attention.

  Janet Morris

  Men, Hands, Order

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.48, Paradise Publishing

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• Be careful what you pray for.

  Janet Morris

  Recovery, Praying, Mystery

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.234, Paradise Publishing

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• But she has found real love, and love can heal and save.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Real, Salvation

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• This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'

  Janet Morris

  Evil, Giving, Magic

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.101, Paradise Publishing

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• As goes love so goes life.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Angel

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

  Carolyn Wells

  Stupid, Silly, Simple

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• Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

  Elie Wiesel

  Compassion, Fantasy, Blind

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.271, Schocken

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• Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

  James Levine

  Cutting, Reality, Air

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• They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Destiny, May, Mouths

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• A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

  Alexander Lowen

  Long, Doe, Accepting

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• Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hands, Play, Cards

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• Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Agents, Providence, Servant

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• No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Wise, Law, Matter

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• A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

  Epicurus

  God, Strong, Prayer

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• How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Success, Important, Masters

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• Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

  Dante Alighieri

  Arrows, Expected

  Dante Alighieri (1984). “Dante's Paradise”

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• Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.

  Gayle Forman

  Keys, Doors, Locks

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• I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

  Peter Straub

  Intuition, Wade, Blind

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  Edmund Husserl

  Spiritual, Soul, Humanity

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Feminism, Human Nature, Anti Feminist

  Phyllis Schlafly (2003). “Feminist fantasies”, Spence Pub

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• Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Success, Wish, Saddest

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.426

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