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The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'
Sep 10, 2025
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!
Love the people with whom fate brings you together
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.
Control your fate or somebody else will
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man
I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Into each life some rain must fall.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.