Quotes: Destiny, Fate

(the continual expectation of the unexpected)

destiny (s) (noun), destinies (pl)
1. The predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible course of events and considered as something beyond human power or control: Bert is convinced that no matter how hard he tries to accomplish his future existence, it will be a result of destiny and not by his own efforts.
2. The power or agency thought to predetermine events: Ted and Jane were sure that it was destiny that brought them together.
The inevitable course of an action.
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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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