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Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our true destiny.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

Concern for one's own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one's social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the individuals are concerned only about material welfare will not be able to achieve harmony and peace.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Control your fate or somebody else will

Control your destiny or somebody will.

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.

Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital - people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.

Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.

Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up with excitement and pleasure. I can name that terrible, numbing paralysis and know it will pass.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his ears, let music flow from his fingertips. It's a nice image for selling tickets to movies, but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

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

Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.