“Everything is predestined in life except the destiny of a man.”

“Everything was already predestined by God, that is why Jesus saw the people’s ignorance.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

“Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”

Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) German jurist, political theorist and professor of law

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

“Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune—what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.”

Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985) American philosopher

“There is nothing serious in civil life except good and evil, vice and virtue. Everything else in it should be a game.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.”

Yasmina Khadra book What the Day Owes the Night

“Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba