Destiny's Child

Reading Forbes' Book of Business Quotations now -- truly a treasure trove of delightful insights, wit and wisdom from time immemorial.

Here are a couple of quotes under the section Destiny. Kernels of truth.

It's odd to think we might have been
Sun, moon and stars unto each other;
Only I turned up one little street
As you went up another.
Fanny Heaslip Lea

No wind favours him who has no destined port. Michel Montaigne

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

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live. F. Marion Crawford

We sow out thoughts, and we reap our action; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits and we reap our characters; we sow our characters and we reap our destiny. Charles A. Hall

Destiny. Kismet. Karma. Fate. What is it?

At what point is our life decided for us? And at what points are we truly able to act and execute our own will? Are we ever independent of predestination and predetermination? The answer probably lies in the conjunction and nexus of the two. But the balance, the equation remains a mystery -- a wonderful mystery too ;)