“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
“I told you. You don t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
“Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.”
“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn t going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.”
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”
“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.”
“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?”
“Life is not like water. Things in life don t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
“[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there s nothing else. It s here, and you d better decide to enjoy it or you re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”
“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”
“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”