Posts Tagged ‘Destiny’
the way that is truly yours
“Gods and Buddhas, ancestors and ghosts, demons and angels, none of them can live your life or die your death. Neither foreknowledge nor seeing into the minds of others will show you the way that is truly yours.
This much I have learned.
The rest is for you to discover.” – Takashi Matsuoka, Cloud of Sparrows
rewriting their teens
“You couldn’t get hold of the things you’d done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.” – Stephen King, The Stand
total sum
“We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. there is no escaping that, not for any of us.” – Robin Hobb, Fool’s Fate.
destiny doesn’t do home visits
“Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.” – Carlos Ruis Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind.
a preordained path
“If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are – love, grief, joy, learning, changing – would count for nothing.” – Kate Mosse, Labyrinth.
