"Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts."
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"He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ."
"Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God."
"Love is our true destiny."
"The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them."
"How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy"
"We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth."
"The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars."
"The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother"
"A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world."
"To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future."
"Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny."
"A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny."
"The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America."
"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."
"A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom"
"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."
"The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill."
"Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears."
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."