Destiny Quotes

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

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

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

"Today is a new day. Do not let your history interfere with your destiny."

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

"Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent."

"My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing."

"If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate."

"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."

"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it."

"Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day."

"It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy."

"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment."

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

"My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people."

"Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships."

"We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."

"The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny."

"A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others."

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

"Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny."

"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family."

"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."

"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."

"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."

"My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones."

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one."

"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."

"Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith."

"Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life."

"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world."

"The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted."

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

"Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."