fate

O Lord, grant my dearest husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita, the spirit of prayer and the grace to read thy word.

Come what will, one comfort's always left _ that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future.

You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

The Future is as avoidable as the past is alterable, for the latter is, after all, a consequence of the former: A combination of choice and fate.

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

Children__heir untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must__hat life is the cruel fate that awaits them while they make plans for a tomorrow that will never be.

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress.

Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough ti change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.

But the trouble is, I do want to be surprised. I want to choose. I broke the heart of my fate so that I could choose. I never chose; I only saw a little girl who looked like me standing on a gear at the end of the world and laughing, and that's not choosing, not really. Wouldn't you rather I chose you? Wouldn't you rather I picked our future out of all the others anyone could have?

Indeed, life is full of tests. You don__ know what they are, so you must treat everything in life with the same care you would bring to a test on which your future rests. I realize that the most important test of all, in my quest, and in every bird__ quest, is the test to be the master of fate.

Consider One Thing Always, We Are Just Selected".

We don__ escape our pasts, you know,_ Madd said. He sounded defeated. __ever. We can never escape what we are._ __aybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.

Your past is your experiences and your teacher as well, and your future is your hope, your dream and your fate, while the present is your moment of learning from past and preparation for the future.

Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

The future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present.