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Octavia Butler Author, Novelist
Destiny

"We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars.... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness."

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
Destiny

"The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life"

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Rosa Luxemburg Political Theorist, Activist
Destiny

"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."

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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
Destiny

"In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Destiny

"If destiny comes to help you, Love will come to meet you. A life without love isn't a life"

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Destiny

"Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Destiny

"Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny."

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Muhammad Iqbal Poet, Philosopher
Destiny

"I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay."

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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Destiny

"The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth."

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