UPDATE: Come nominate us for Green Business of the Year!
Go_to_gaia_btn
Mygaia_btn
Comm_home_btn
Gaia_mail_btn
Remember me
Powered by Zaadz
Gaia+
Quote Size: All | Short | Tall | Grande | Venti

Quotes about Fate

Just because you're in love with someone doesn't mean you have any business being in a relationship with them.

Peg Papanek
Source: Friend of a friend
Contributed by: Chloe Gargiulo. More quotes added by Chloe from all sources
More quotes about: love, lost love, disappointment, fate
Quote

Free spirited free riders
they're on their way
but don't know
where they're going...

Warren Miller
 
Contributed by: Jade. More quotes added by pRiMaLeVe from all sources
Quote

We may say that one's unrealized potential, one's undeveloped growth needs, may become one's fate. Seemingly, life demands not only adaptation to external reality but, equally, adaptation to inner reality, to what one is "meant to be" in terms of the force patterns of the objective psyche. There appears to be a compelling urge to adapt to what one is meant to be-to one's inner truth-which may have little or nothing to do with one's conscious ideas or purposes.

Edward Whitmont
Source: The Symbolic Quest, Page: 48-9
Contributed by: Nick Boyar. More quotes added by Nick from this | all sources
More quotes about: growth, fate, meaning of life, vocation
Quote

Is fortune a feather and I am the wind, or am I a feather and fortune is the wind?  I really do not know.  Do you?

Laura Teresa Marquez
Source: Early Morning Conversation
Contributed by: Jim. More quotes added by Jim from all sources
Quote

"I resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her."

Louisa May Alcott
 
Contributed by: Marilyn O'Hearne. More quotes added by creativerenewal from all sources
More quotes about: fate, making a living
Quote

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Carl Gustav Jung : Swiss psychiatrist, student of Freud & founder analytic psychology
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
 
Contributed by: torrid_windâ„¢. More quotes added by torrid_windâ„¢ from all sources
More quotes about: unconscious, fate
Quote

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

Quentin Crisp (1908 - )
 
Contributed by: Mary. More quotes added by Mary_C from all sources
More quotes about: fate, choice, action
Quote

"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. "

- Carl Jung

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
Source: Carl Jung
Contributed by: Andy. More quotes added by Andy Lumiere from all sources
More quotes about: jung, fate, gnostic, subconscious, unconscious, manifest
Quote

I didn’t look back. I couldn’t. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously “present,” an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be. The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

Sol Luckman
Contributed by: Leigh. More quotes added by Leigh from this | all sources
Quote

I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

Carl Gustav Jung : Swiss psychiatrist, student of Freud & founder analytic psychology
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Contributed by: Crispini. More quotes added by Crispini from this | all sources
More quotes about: parents, children, ancestors, karma, fate
Quote

"At the moment of our birth we must also walk in the presence of our death and so I cannot tarry for want of safety nor shelter. All things must awaken to their fate and my destiny is already with you."

peliguin : Peliguin Publications
Robin Craig Clark
Source: The Garden, Page: 33
Contributed by: Robin Craig Clark. More quotes added by peliguin from this | all sources
Quote

Every human heartbeat, he’d said many times, is a universe of possibilities.  And it seemed to me that I finally understood exactly what he’d meant. He’d been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I’d always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of stars.  But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter now good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

Gregory David Roberts : Gaia Child
Gregory Roberts
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
Contributed by: Anaxilea. More quotes added by Anaxilea from this | all sources
More quotes about: love, fate, luck
Quote

But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?  [...] Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute.  Only chance can speak to us

Milan Kundera
Contributed by: Grace Huang. More quotes added by Grace from this | all sources
More quotes about: chance, fate
Quote

Reading The Dark Knight Returns had woken up something or someone inside me. It had woken up my own Dark Knight, I suppose, the part of me that yearned to take on the universe, walk on the wild side, live dangerously, leap knowing full well the net would never appear, that its not appearing was precisely the point. Suddenly I craved to become a specialist in the Leap of Faith, to plummet headlong into my unknown destiny at twice the speed of death, to be a regular predator feasting for the duration of my short mammalian existence on fate’s tissues …

Sol Luckman
Contributed by: Alyce. More quotes added by Alyce from this | all sources
Quote

The world's greatest lie: At a certain point in our lives we lose control of what's happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate.

Paulo Coelho : author of The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Contributed by: Gaia Team. More quotes added by Gaia Team from this | all sources
More quotes about: fate, destiny, choice
Quote

It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person’s fate. Translators use “plot” to render the ancient Greek word mythos in English. The plots that entangle our souls and draw forth our characters are the great myths. That is why we need a sense of myth and knowledge of different myths to gain insight into our epic struggles, our misalliances, and our tragedies. Myths show the imaginative structures inside our messes, and our human characters can locate themselves against the background of the characters of myth.

James Hillman
Contributed by: Mushin Schilling. More quotes added by Mushin from this | all sources
Quote

Nietzche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment — not discouragement — you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

Then when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You'll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

Joseph Campbell : American mythologist, writer & philosopher
Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
Contributed by: Siona van Dijk. More quotes added by Siona from this | all sources
More quotes about: neitzsche, fate, love, campbell, failure, success, strength, flow
Quote

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our lives are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Agnes de Mille (1908 - )
 
Contributed by: James Moog. More quotes added by James from all sources
More quotes about: fate, decisions, life
Quote

...even I ... if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free...I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Robert Louis Stevenson : Scottish novelist, essayist & poet
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Contributed by: Kimberly Ann Possible. More quotes added by Kimpossible from this | all sources
More quotes about: fate, secret, fools
Quote

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

H.W. Longfellow
Source: read somewhere
Contributed by: Vishnu B^..ig bang ......... More quotes added by Vishnu ... from all sources
More quotes about: fate, achieving, labour
Quote

 . . . The mind seeks knowledge as a handle on the cosmos from which it gains leverage for greater control and self-satisfaction, but synchronicity will not allow itself to be used so roughly. Like the flea (on the ‘iron bull’), we must eventually give up our effort to penetrate the impenetrable and surrender to a reality which we cannot master but to which we must submit. In the end, to be honest to our exploration or synchronicity we must ourselves surrender to it. This means to relax and allow the sometimes fickle tide of fate to take its natural course, to let it wash over and benignly carry us. We must sacrifice the urgent, petty agendas of the ego to a larger field or participation. We must learn humility and own humor, finding guidance in intuition and making logic a servant rather than master. Control is a personal experience, surrender is a transpersonal one. Through surrender we learn to move with the rhythms that flow through our existence and in so doing open ourselves to the wellsprings of life that are the gift of the divine Trickster.

Allan Combs
Source: Synchronicity
Contributed by: standalonecomplex. More quotes added by standalonecomplex from all sources
Quote

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912)
Source: http://www.everybodygoes.com/quotations/sole-uncontested-author-quotes.htm
Contributed by: Tracy A. Phaup. More quotes added by Tracy from all sources
Quote

Southerners have a gene, as yet undetected in the DNA spirals, that causes them to believe that place is fate.  Where you are is who you are.  The further inside you a place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it.  Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

Frances Mayes
Source: Under the Tuscan Sun
Contributed by: Tsuya. More quotes added by Tsuya from this | all sources
More quotes about: fate, place, belonging
Quote

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place.  Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different... My rational thought processes cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.  I'm here because I climbed out the window at night when I was four.

Frances Mayes
Source: Under the Tuscan Sun
Contributed by: Tsuya. More quotes added by Tsuya from this | all sources
More quotes about: chance, choice, destiny, fate, free will
Quote

Once again, I was the captain of my ship and master of my fate.

I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love

Richard Branson : Gaia Explorer
Richard Branson
Contributed by: Franc Paul. More quotes added by :franc from this | all sources
More quotes about: fate, love, work, think
Quote

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Roman Emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
Contributed by: Brian Johnson. More quotes added by Brian from this | all sources
More quotes about: fate, good, life, power
Quote

I want to seize fate by the throat.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
 
More quotes about: fate
Quote

Concerns for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein : German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, famous for his theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
More quotes about: fate, interest
Quote

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Albert Einstein : German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, famous for his theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
More quotes about: day, death, fate, happiness, labor, life, men, order, soul, sympathy
Quote

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.

Les Brown : 21st Century Motivational Speaker
Les Brown
 
More quotes about: fate, justice, play, potential
Quote

Our Sponsors

Got feedback?

Sponsor us!