#fate

Geography is destiny. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#fate #geography #life #life

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't. ↗

— Dick Francis

#life #survival #life

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all." - Matthew Farrell ↗

— Judith McNaught

#games #life #life

I don't believe the idea of Fate is that everything in our lives is predetermined. For me, it's those moments when, on reflection, Life seems to have intervened and given us a friendly or not-so-friendly nudge in another direction. ↗

— Thea Euryphaessa

#fate #life

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #decide #fate #future #life

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#choice #dream #fate #goals #inspiration

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#fate #thoughts-on-life #life

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#curse #destiny #divine-intervention #fate #fortune

Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#fate #love #soulmates #love

Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#doom #fate #love