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“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
“Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of triesto get there.”
“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
“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 ones cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as t...”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am a...”
“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.”
“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?”
“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”
“DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of ...”
“There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.”
“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 where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was...”
“You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.”
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.”
“It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”
“A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.”
“First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of l...”
“the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.”
“My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...”
