Tom Robbins Quotes

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

If it's meant to be for you, it's going to happen.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

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

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Fate keeps on happening.

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

We are the playthings of the gods.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you're supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?