J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

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

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.

If something is meant to be, then it will be.

I was always meant to be Khali.

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

The stars played out the way they were supposed to play out, and I'm in the position I'm supposed to be in.

I believe in fate.

My mum used to always say to me, 'What's meant for you won't pass you by,' and it's true. If I didn't get something, it wasn't meant for me.

Sometimes I think some things just happen and are meant to be.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

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

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.