“When people reject you, do not be discouraged because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but designed especially for you by your Creator.”

“He and his fate walk together, Master and Slave. In which order, only time and action tell.”

“Let not fate tarry on you. Seize it before it carries you.”

“Nothing has the strength to prevent you from finding your way to the sea when you’re determined to fulfill your destiny.”

“I trust the divine track. The world has my back.”

“The thing I realised instantly was that at first, Wag had blamed all of this on luck. But he’d made that luck happen. He just hadn’t realised it. He’d made a series of ‘correct’ choices, which had let him, bass in hand, to his girl. Maybe we can all do that. Maybe we can all change our fortunes. Maybe there’s no such thing as destiny – there’s just a series of choices we create ourselves. I guess it’s only when we look at how a No could have changed our lives for the worse that we realise the value of the tiny yeses that fly at us each day. – 293”

“Then the bells of the Cathedral began to ring, a slow, steady, comforting sound, and she found herself thinking back to that moment when the dream of the tiny white bird began to merge with the dream of her life and how very unaware she had been, it had been hidden from her view, this beginning, as so many things are when we are young.”

“-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn’t mind it”

“Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.”

“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.”

“Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other’s souls and foster mutual understanding.”

“Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know.”