quotations about destiny
Many people don't think much about their destiny, and may even be intimidated by the term, mistakenly believing that something as grand as "destiny" is reserved for historical figures, spiritual leaders, and famous people. I firmly believe that every one of us has a destiny, and to discover what it is, we have to connect with what makes us feel the most vibrant and joyful.
PEGGY MCCOLL
Your Destiny Switch
Destiny is selfhood. To live your destiny is to be raised above accidental circumstances to the level of your essential being. This is not merely because destiny precludes accidents and thus provides a propitious life-environment. The relationship between destiny and self is more intimate than that. Destiny defines the self: you ARE your destiny. To speak of destiny as though it is merely something that happens to you is to assume that a person is in essence always the same, changeless at the core amid the ceaseless changes of life and history. But the truth is that what happens to you--including in this category the ideas and impulses that arise within you in response to outward events--defines your identity. The only way you could be fully identified would be by a story--of the kind God alone could tell--of the unfolding of your life in all its depths and complexities. Thus living your destiny is carrying on your life as the one you really are.
GLENN E. TINDER
The Fabric of Hope
Destiny is the course of events which is followed by those who are content to go with the tide.
ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
The Book of Destiny
Even though it is divinely ordained, the musical score of your unfolding destiny is not necessarily easy to hear.
PAUL O'BRIEN
Divination: Sacred Tools for Reading the Mind of God
As we blossom or awaken, we begin to notice there is a force in the world that seems to be operating and leading us into a certain destiny. And it's very much a kind of detective effort on our own part to figure out what these things mean. The synchronicity is essentially a meaningful coincidence that brings us information at just the right time. While leading us forward, it also feels very inspiring and destined in a way. It feels like we're on a path of unfolding in our own personal evolution.
JAMES REDFIELD
interview, Awareness Magazine
Realizing a destiny is not a matter of acquiescing in some form of relentless causality. If it were, there would be no sin. A destiny can be failed or refused. That is why it is not a fate. True, the very word "destiny" is indicative of necessity, but the necessity of a destiny is not like the necessity that makes an object fall when it is dropped. Rather, it is the kind I recognize when I face a duty I am tempted to evade and say to myself, "This I must do."
GREGORY WOLFE
The New Religious Humanists
Fulfilling your purpose and stepping into your destiny is inextricably tied to knowing who created you and why you exist. One can never truly know who they are without knowing who created them and why. The creator is always a part of his creation. The manufacturer is always a part of his product.
CHRISTOPHER JOY
Rise Up and Step Into Your Destiny
Stand up, be bold. Take the whole responsibility on your shoulder and know that you are the creator of your destiny. All the strength you want is within yourself. Therefore make your own future.
VIVEKANANDA
attributed, Pocket Book of Quips & Quotes
An individual's destiny belongs to him in much the same way as the ground, which fetters him by its gravity, but without which walking would be impossible. We must accept our destiny as we accept the ground on which we stand--a ground which is the springboard for our freedom.
VIKTOR EMIL FRANKL
The Doctor and the Soul
Motive is internal, work is external, destiny is eternal.
THOMAS ROBERT SLICER
Meditations
We cannot always explain our destiny by referring to our moral worth; we may be cursed and blessed without justice behind either. Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.
SENECA
attributed, Consolations of Philosophy
God will not bless the self-absorbed with positions of influence if their concept of destiny is about what they bring to the table instead of why He brought them to the table. The harvest is too ripe, too ready to be reaped. The hour is too late and the issue too critical for the Lord to allow His harvest to rot in the fields while His sons and daughters wrestle with one another over whose destiny is the greatest. It is not about us, it is all about Him!
HOWARD L. BASS
Your Best Is Yet to Come!
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
HENRY MILLER
attributed, The Harper Book of Quotations
Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.
GAI EATON
Islam and the Destiny of Man
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
attributed, In Pursuit of Destiny
Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.
T. S. ELIOT
Murder in the Cathedral
Destiny is ... the range of formal or structured human possibility within which human freedom is actual.
DONALD J. KEEFE
Thomism and the Ontological Theology of Paul Tillich
The world's definition of the word "destiny" is a person's lot or fate in life. In the world's eyes, God has nothing to do with it; it's pure luck. But God's definition is totally different because it is based in Him, not luck, lot or fortune. In my words, God's definition of the word "destiny" is "the fulfillment of the calling God has placed upon your life."
CAROLYN ANDERSON
Standing in These Last Days
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
WOODROW WILSON
speech, Apr. 6, 1912