#destiny

Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#free-will #life #experience

Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#christianity #destiny #gossip #haters #life-missions

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#hurt-feelings #life-missions #life-purpose #pain #sorrow

Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of. ↗

— Elizabeth Hand

#destiny #love #love

You are beholden To the truth It is the way It is the path It is your destiny To be true Is to be ↗

— Karen Hackel

#life #living #new-age #soul #true

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#religion #religion

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. ↗

— Henry Miller

#anyone #belief #destiny #enough #great

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#existence #children

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#path #path

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#ignorance