Learn Through Quotations

“If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth. ”

“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”

“A Lizard continues it's life into the wilderness like a human into heaven. Our fate is entirely dependent on our life.”

“Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.”

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

“Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

“For man is man and master of his fate.”

“Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.”

“We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself.... It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.”

“Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardizes itself.”

“Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. ”