"There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish."
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"As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that."
"As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences."
"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."
"The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere."
"No one can escape his destiny."
"[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
"Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others."
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."
"You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not."
"I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite."
"Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness."
"From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny."
"A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and - above all - responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill."
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
"The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me."
"Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy."
"It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine."
"One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it."