"The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven."
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"The soul of man createth its own destiny."
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"Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down."
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"Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times."
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"The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth."
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"But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back."
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"Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia."
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"If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived."
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"It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex."
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"This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal."
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"Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art"
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"Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard the idea of longevity and cease loving this life, instead committing these things to God and, believing that no one ever escapes destiny, to consider, with that in mind, how we may live the best possible life in the time that remains."
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"Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny."
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"The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny."
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"Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure."
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"Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up with excitement and pleasure. I can name that terrible, numbing paralysis and know it will pass."
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"I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state."
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"Employment is my right my destiny."
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"In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny."
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"We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America."
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