Mary Hunter Austin Quotes

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

It's better to accept destiny.

The fates will lead you to the future or drag you there.

Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.

Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

I don't go through life thinking I'm on a conveyer belt I can't jump off, but sometimes it's helpful to think that things are out of your control.

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

You're not always able to choose.

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.

Fate keeps on happening.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

There is no armor against fate.

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

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.

I always believe whatever is written in your fate will happen.