Fate Quotes (22) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Fate. Optimism is a mental attitude or world view that interprets situations and events as being best (optimized), meaning that in some way for factors that may not be fully comprehended, the present moment is in an optimum state. The concept is typically extended to include the attitude of hope for future conditions unfolding as optimal as well. The more broad concept of optimism is the understanding that all of nature, past, present and future, operates by laws of optimization along the lines of Hamilton's principle of optimization in the realm of physics. This understanding, although criticized by counter views such as pessimism, idealism and realism, leads to a state of mind that believes everything is as it should be, and that the future will be as well. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass with water at the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full, but the pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
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“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
~ Lemony Snicket
“What's meant to be will always find a way”
~ Trisha Yearwood
“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
~ John Lennon
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“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
~ Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
~ Dante Alighieri, Inferno
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive”
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
“I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
“Fate loves the fearless.”
~ James Russell Lowell
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
~ Thomas Merton, Love and Living
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Fate laughs at probabilities.
~ E.G. Bulwer-Lytton
Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed.
~ Jessi Lane Adams
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
~ Sun Tzu
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
~ Joan of Arc
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
~ Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha
“Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.”
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star
“I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.”
~ Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
“If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.”
~ Deepak Chopra
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