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It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny: but then we are wishing not for more love but for less: When we want to be other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. These Divine demands which sound to our natural ears most like those of a despot and least like those of a lover, in fact marshal us where we should want to go if we knew what we wanted.
-- C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
I don’t know if destiny exists, but I do know that decision exists.
-- Peter Handke, Wings of Desire
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