#destiny

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#ignorance

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life #life

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are. ↗

— John Perkins

#economy #fate #free-will #life

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#follow #importantly #lays #meaning #meaning of

Floating there I held onto faith. Because you can't know who might cross your path or who will take your breath away. You can't know what friends might actually become sisters because they stayed by your side. You can't know when there'll be an unexpected detour that'll take you to the place where you were always meant to be. ↗

— Holly C. Corbett

#faith #friends #inspirational #life #faith

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#figures #generation #grand #heroes #history

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#alternatives #destiny #future #into #leads

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#fulfillment #greatness #must #our #return

The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death #destiny #kobold #death

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think? ↗

— Joan Bauer

#fate #design