Omar Khayyam Quotes

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.

I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.

The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.