Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

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

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

A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

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

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

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.

Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me in my life they're for a very specific reason, something for me to learn.

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.

The world shows us what we need at a specific moment in time.