Patti Smith Quotes

Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

I don't know what my daughter will become.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me in my life they're for a very specific reason, something for me to learn.

I'd like to believe that tomorrow is another challenge for me. I'm sure there is lots more for me to do, because there is lots and lots of stuff still to be explored.

I really believe that some things happen for a reason, and they make you a better person.

I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

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

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

Our only purpose in life is growth.

Without risk you can't experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.