Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Sometimes, it seems like the whole world has already set my life out for me.

we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.

I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone from the moment we're born. We choose our destiny, our ultimate fate. But I also think that we don't realize the choices we've made until after we make them. We're racing down a freeway, only to realize we've missed all the exits, and the only direction we can go is dead ahead.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them

If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable? … We are born that way. We don’t choose it. So shouldn’t it be acceptable, excuse - this is according to the way the left thinks about things.

Decision equals destiny.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.