Aron Ralston Quotes

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

You never know about life.

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.

I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.

Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.