"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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"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"
"Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny."
"Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it."
"Geography blended with time equals destiny."
"The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy."
"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."
"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."
"We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be."
"If destiny comes to help you, Love will come to meet you. A life without love isn't a life"
"It was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
"What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?"
"Your courage draws people out of complacency into their 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."
"We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become."
"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."
"Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming."
"I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay."
"Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way."
"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."