“Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.”
More from Henry Miller on Life
“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”
“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
“We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
“One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.”
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
“That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.”
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
“Like ships men flounder time and time again.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone a...”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”