# Quote — David Baddiel, Whatever Love Means

> That's the thing about your destiny: how are you supposed to know it when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from the random life?

- Author: [David Baddiel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-baddiel.md)
- Book: [Whatever Love Means](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-baddiel/whatever-love-means.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-baddiel/whatever-love-means/thats-the-thing

## More from this book

> [H]e felt frustrated, his sense of fate and direction subverted by banalities - the frustration of the man who, having thought himself following his destiny, finds he is actually on the A318 to New Malden.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-baddiel/whatever-love-means/h-e-felt-frustrated.md)

> [A]ction restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that they are linked, some sense that life has chapters.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-baddiel/whatever-love-means/a-ction-restarting-action.md)