Marianne Moore Quotes

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

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

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

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

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

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 that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

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

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

I believe life is fated - what's going to happen will happen.

I think everything that happens, happens for a reason.

I believe in destiny and the philosophy of karma.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate