J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

There is also a need that each should understand where he came from and what he is -- and what will become of him.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Everything happens for a reason, if you work hard for it.

Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable.

I'm just a young girl trying to fulfill the purpose that's been placed in my heart to do.

Everyone's journey is their own journey. Everyone gets to where they are supposed to be. Everyone's journey works out the way they're supposed to.

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't right to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.