Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean De La FontaineRead
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Avoiding challenges may lead one directly to them.
This quote suggests that while people often try to evade the challenges or destinies they anticipate, it is often the very choices they make in an attempt to escape that lead them directly to those outcomes. It highlights the irony of life and how our attempts at control can sometimes just circle back to what we were trying to avoid.
Themes
DestinyAvoidanceChoicesIronyLife
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech to illustrate how facing challenges head-on can lead to success.
More from Jean De La Fontaine
All quotes βIn everything one must consider the end.
Jean De La FontaineRead
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Jean De La FontaineRead
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
Jean De La FontaineRead
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean De La FontaineRead
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean De La FontaineRead
Similar quotes
Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.
E. NesbitRead
Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.
Aron RalstonRead
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Henry Ward BeecherRead
But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.
William ManchesterRead
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale HurstonRead
Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.
Charles SpurgeonRead