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"Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."
"Choices not chance determine your destiny."
"I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both."
"The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny."
"Teach your heart that this is destiny"
"I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."
"No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep."
"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."
"All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."
"We make our own fortune and call it destiny."
"Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will."
"Destiny is our will, and our will is nature."
"Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray."
"But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity."
"I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny."
"The path to love is our spiritual destiny."
"Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny."
"From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette"
"Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny."
"It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."
