one often meets there destiny on the road they take to avoid it

[ultraman]

can anyone tell me what this means to them?

[dizmouk2009]

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

[MarkRae]

There = at that place
Their = belonging to them
They're = they are

[dizmouk2009]

"People often meet their destiny on the road they take to avoid it" - Unknown auther (-google).

[Quizmonster]

I believe this old story of the man who met the figure of Death in the city of Damascus illustrates it quite well...
Death looked surprised when he saw the man, but then recovered his composure and said, "I am coming for you tomorrow." The terrified man bought a camel and rode like the wind to the city of Aleppo. The next day, Death knocked on the door of the room where he was hiding and said, "I have come for you."
"But I thought you would be looking for me in Damascus!" said the horrified man.
"Not at all," said Death. "That's why I was surprised to see you there yesterday. I knew that I was due to find you in Aleppo today."

In other words - as fatalists would say - you can run but you can't hide from your destiny.

[heathfield]

A nice tale, QM - I'll remember that one.

[tara20]

Like stepping over a banana skin to avoid slipping and falling down a manhole.

[fredpuli47]

Fate.
(Or Murphy's Law applies to us all !)

[lgd113]

Oedipus Rex, a play by Sophocles tells the story of Oedipus who tried to avoid killing his father and marrying his mother, his destiny that was prophesied. He avoided going back home until his mother was dead, but found out he was an orphan so the woman who raised him was not his mother. His real mother, whom he had married had sent someone to place him in the elements to expose him and kill him when she heard the prophecy about her infant. Furthermore, his real father Laius had been killed. Oedipus had met his father on that very road and killed a man named Laius, his own father. Oedipus ran to avoid his destiny and met his destiny on the very road he had chosen to avoid his horrible destiny. His real mother, Jocasta, hanged herself and Oedipus gouged out his eyes. Moral--destiny in unavoidable.