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“We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or simply cause a change in the air so that a fly ends up where it might never have gone oth...”
“NOTHING goes exactly as planned.Make your OWN destiny”
“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”
“What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot ...”
“The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.”
“That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.”
“A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there...”
“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”
“God's will is your deepest desires.”
“but remember, nothing comes without a price. Our paths are not mapped; theyre made.”
“The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the coc...”
“What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?”
“Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.”
“It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his battered, much repaired pair of slippers even though they were objects of derision. ...”
“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.”
“She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.”
“The Lady may favoryou, but at least I am in charge of my own destiny.”
“We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.”
“Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.”
“I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. Whe...”
