#Destiny

"Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back."

"Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route."

"Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know."

"I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you."

"Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail."

"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."

"Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for all?...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’- Tithonus"

"They say some couples are joined in heaven, and on Earth they look for their partner soul to be with.I knew I had found mine in her. And who can fight heaven?"

"Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself."

"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."

"I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me."

"Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have."

"I believe the way to master my destiny is to serve others. If I raise up others, am I not also raised up?"

"I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be."

"Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!"- Gol D. Roger"

"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"

"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."

"From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette"

"I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me."