“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making ...



Thoughts on Destiny

Directions: Read over the following quotes about destiny/fate. Choose the one that you most agree with and explain why you agree most with that one.

1. “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” ― John Lennon

2. “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.” ― Lemony Snicket

3. “What's meant to be will always find a way.” ― Trisha Yearwood

4. “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” ― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

5. “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”  ― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

6. “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”  ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

7. “There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”  ― Elizabeth Gilbert

8. “Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

9. “Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.” ― J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

10. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. “Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.” ― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

12. “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.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

13. “Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

14. “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.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

15. “Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

16. “Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.” ― Bryce Courtenay

17. “Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.” ― Ellen Hopkins

18. “All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” ― Seán O'Casey

19. “You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.” ― Goldie Hawn

20. “Fate loves the fearless.” ― James Russell Lowell

21. “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...” ― John Lennon

22. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

23. “Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” ― William Jennings Bryan

24. “Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

25. “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”  ― J.K. Rowling

26. “Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.” ― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

27. “There are no coincidences in life. That person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake.” ― Shannon L. Alder

28. “Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” ― Albert Einstein

29. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

30. “We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.” ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

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