#tiny

Garion,' she said very calmly, 'the universe knew your name before that moon up there was spun out of the emptiness. Whole constellations have been waiting for you since the beginning of time.' I didn't want them to, Aunt Pol.' There are those of us who aren't given that option, Garion. There are things that gave to be done and certain people who have to do them. It's as simple as that.' He smiled rather sadly at her flawless face and gently touched the snowy white lock at her brow. Then, for the last time in his life, he asked the question that had been on his lips since he was a tiny boy. 'Why me, Aunt Pol? Why me?' Can you possibly think of anyone else you'd trust to deal with these matters, Garion?' He had not really been prepared for that question. It came at him in stark simplicity. Now at last he fully understood. 'No,' he sighed, 'I suppose not. Somehow it seems a little unfair, though. I wasn't even consulted.' Neither was I, Garion,' she answered. 'But we didn't have to be consulted, did we? The knowledge of what we have to do is born into us. ↗

— David Eddings

#fantasy #purpose #life

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

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#wisdom #destiny