#des

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. ↗

— Rumi

#desire

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. ↗

— Mick Jagger

#need #desire

Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. ↗

— Henry Miller

#destiny

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#fate #destiny

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, 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 Ruiz Zafón

#destiny

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#fate #wonder #destiny

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#destiny

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#fate #destiny

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#self-discovery #synchronicity #work #destiny

[...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#destiny