Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

Theodore Roosevelt

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

Edmund Husserl

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Omar Khayyam

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.

Orison Swett Marden

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer