embracing destiny Quotes

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.

You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

The world is ours if we want it, we can take it, if you just take my hand

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny.

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.