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"Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places."
"Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it."
"Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs."
"I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to."
"It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny."
"You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label."
"Have faith in your destiny"
"No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny."
"Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety."
"I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations."
"One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you."
"What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny."
"You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts"
"The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring."
"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more."
"Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny."
"He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate."
"The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong."
"Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
