Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our to-day.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.