History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
I think I’ve always believed that there is one person in the universe who you’re truly meant for–for whom you are truly meant–and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.
People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.
To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.
