"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." Francois Mocuriac

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." Wayne Dyer

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." Lemony Snicket

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered." William Shakespeare

"The day you decide to do it is your lucky day." Japanese Proverb

"Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face." Luis Borges

"Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions." Yahia Lababidi, writer (b. 1973)

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Onely one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at time." Winston Churchill

"And it all comes true Yes it all comes true
Like a wheel inside a wheel It turns on you
And you think, What have I done? What can I do?
What you believe about yourself
It all comes true
" John Cougar Mellencamp

"You are not here merely to make a living. you are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand." Woodrow Wilson

"There are people who get exactly what they want. You think they're the lucky ones, but they're not. The lucky ones are those who do what they are meant to do." Neem Karoli Baba

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving..." Albert Einstein

“The chief condition on which life, health, and vigor depend, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.” Pierre Joseph Proudhon

“Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing." Sydney Smith

“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.” Carl Schurz, general and politician (1829-1906)

“There's a Chinese proverb that I think is true: You often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.” Hector Elizondo

“Destiny spoils plans.” Turkish Proverb

“We all know sometimes life's hates and troubles
Can make you wish you were born in another time and space
But you can bet your life times that and twice its double
That God knew exactly where he wanted you to be placed.”
Stevie Wonder, As

“Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.” Goethe

“One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it." French Proverb