Kaci Baum

50 Stunning Quotes About Discovering Your Destiny

Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. 
Holly Riordan
February 23, 2017
“Fate doesn’t guarantee us a happy ending. We’re not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn’t some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.”
— Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You(Firebird)
Tagged: Destiny, Happy Endings, Prophecy
“Our destiny is aligned with our heart's innermost longing, a longing embedded within our soul before birth. This longing is a unique pattern or configuration reminiscent of the constellations in the night sky. When we express (press out) our unique configuration, it shines through us with an otherworldly luminosity, manifesting abundance in our lives and the lives of others. Our sole task is to yoke our inner destiny, thread it through our lives and weave it into the world. All else is just shadows and dust.”
— Thea Euryphaessa,, Running Into Myself
Tagged: Destiny, Longing, Souls
“Destiny is not one push, she thought as she waited to cross a quiet street on that cold Paris evening years later, but a thousand small moments that through insight and hard work you line up in the right direction, like the magnet does the metal shavings.”
— Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Moments
“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Tagged: Destiny, Past, Future
“No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.”
— Takayuki Yamaguchi, Shigurui 11
Tagged: Destiny, Changes, Fate
“Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.”
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles Errant(Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Life
“Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.”
— Tim LaHaye, Spirit-Controlled Temperament
Tagged: Destiny, emotions, Fear
“We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.”
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection -Complete Works of Aphorisms- Reference Edition
Tagged: Destiny, Fate
“At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Changes
“Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.”
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe In Another Life
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Choices
“Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.”
— Kelly Thompson, The Girl Who Would Be King
Tagged: Destiny, Timing, Fate
“The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.”
— Dennis L. Bark, Americans and Europeans Dancing in the Dark: On Our Differences and Affinities, Our Interests, and Our Habits of Life(Hoover Institution Press Publication)
Tagged: Destiny, Future, Fate
“Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.”
— Jennifer Haigh,, Mrs. Kimble
Tagged: Destiny, Universe, Heavens
“That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognize it from random life?”
— David Baddiel, Whatever Love Means
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Life
“What if destiny doesn't care?”
— Scott Westerfeld, Goliath(Leviathan) (The Leviathan Trilogy)
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, caring
“Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?”
— Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
Tagged: Destiny, Chasing, Future
“Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.”
— Nick Joaquín, Culture and History(First)
Tagged: Destiny, environment, reactions
“Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you.”
— Kenneth Eade, Political Thriller: Traffick Stop, an American Assassin Story
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Choices
“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
— Julia Glass, Three Junes
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Choices
“Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.”
— J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Tries
“Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves”
— Marissa Meyer, Cress
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, romance
“Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive”
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes(The Mortal Instruments)
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, unfair