Charles Dickens Quotes

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

There are always those moments in football - and life in general - which can decide the path and the route you go down.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them

Decision equals destiny.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.

Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that the whole purpose of your life so far-every choice you made, every twist of fate along the way-was just a journey to get you to that person. My life started when I met Clea. Every minute without her is just killing time until we can be together again.

There are no coincidences.

I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.