#tiny

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#fate #destiny

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#fate #destiny

Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#goals #success #life

I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#chain-of-life #destiny #god #god-s-will #life

There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small. ↗

— Frank Cottrell Boyce

#insignificance #moon #stars #tiny #life

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. ↗

— Garth Stein

#ignorance #success

Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#life-lessons #life

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me ↗

— Carlyle Labuschagne

#fantasy #fiction #hot-release #new-release #science-fiction

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#fate #life #love #life

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that. ↗

— Prince William

#destiny #did #fantastic #fill #future