Irving Stone Quotes

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

I think my life did go the way it was supposed to go for me.

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I have a rendezvous with life.

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

Life brings you exactly what you need.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.