Quotes: Destiny, Fate

(the continual expectation of the unexpected)

destiny
1. The predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events; considered as something beyond human power or control.
2. The inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular person or thing is destined; one's lot in lofe.
3. The power or agency thought to predetermine events: "They were sure that it was destiny that brought them together."
fate
1. Something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot.
2. The universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time.
3. That which is inevitably predetermined; destiny: "Death is our ultimate fate."
4. A prophetic declaration of what must be.

Quotations

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
—Will Foley

A fortune teller is someone who puts his/her intuition on a paying basis.
—Will Foley

Fates and their decisions for destinies. Fates and their decisions; an old Greek story.


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