#destiny

Bound souls. He had always thought the stories of men and women bound throughout all eternity by the strength of passion, either love or hate, were but pleasant tales for long winter’s nights. Bound souls, two sides of the same counter, together through all the lives of the souls, and forever before and afterward. But he recognized the woman just as surely as she recognized him, and he knew the tales were true. ↗

— Ann Marston

#love #soul-mate #love

-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#happiness #inspirational #inspirational

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#destiny #great #heavy #therefore

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is. ↗

— Ann Kidd Taylor

#failing #inspirational #self #inspirational

I remembered and had to keep repeating it: The heart cannot lie. ↗

— Obengbia Leyony

#heartbreak #heartbreaking #inspiration #love #wisdom

How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#destiny #happiness #humanism #inspirational #karma

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#destiny #elite #freedom #tyranny #freedom

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#blow #destiny #i #night #strange

There was no evidence I could do anything to change destiny, but I owed it to myself to try. ↗

— Michelle Madow

#destiny #change

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#age #away #contrasted #death #destiny