C. Wright Mills Quotes

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

I think everything that happens, happens for a reason.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.

Character is fate.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

We are the playthings of the gods.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

In some strange way, this was meant to be.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.