Quotes about Fate

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

No, darling. We've always known each other in Tomorrow,' I said.

nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

One deed of an individual may decide the fate of the world. "If he performs one good deed, blessed is he for he moves the scale both for himself and for the entire world to the side of merit; if he commits one transgression, woe to him for he moves to the side of guilt himself and the whole world.

The ultimate concept in Greek philosophy is the idea of cosmos, of order; the first teaching in the Bible is the idea of creation. Translated into eternal principles, cosmos means fate, while creation means freedom. The essential meaning of creation is not the idea that the universe was created at a particular moment in time. The essential meaning of creation is, as Maimonides explained, the idea that the universe did not come about by necessity but as a result of freedom.