Novalis Quotes

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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

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.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

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

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

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

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.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

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

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.