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You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on you...

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Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules."You can't really bel...

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Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives ...

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Kill him? Would that be it? No man knew better than he the tricks that Destiny plays on a man, or ho...

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I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your o...

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...and here, in this if I always lose myself.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, onl...

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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years...

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Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserv...

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Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's ...

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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim...

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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to b...

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A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go...

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All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of ...

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And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you ...

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In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian ascet...

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From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea...

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Michael BondThe Tales of Olga Da Polga

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...

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Michael MoorcockCorum: The Prince with the Silver Hand

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the...

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A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and disca...

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Michel FaberThe Crimson Petal and the White

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled i...

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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, e...

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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...

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– But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs hu...

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Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

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I thought of the fate of Descartes’ famous formulation: man as ‘master and proprietor of nature.’ Ha...

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A person's destiny often ends before his death.

I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...

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It is a long road from conception to completion.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equ...

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There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each...

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Sometimes there is nothing you can do.

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.

He is holding a book.Inside the book is the Universe.

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Neil GaimanThe Sandman: Endless Nights

Destiny sees things as they are, not as we would wish them to be. He knows there are no stories, onl...

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Neil GaimanThe Sandman: Overture

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of...

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Nicholas SparksMessage in a Bottle

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of whi...

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But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of whi...

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But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of whi...

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But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of whi...

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Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of me...

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Paul BowlesThe Spider's House

Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himsel...

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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des...

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To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.

People meet when they need to meet.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The boy didn't know what a person's "destiny" was. "It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. ...

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To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the uni...

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I had a dream, and I met with a king. I sold crystal and crossed the desert. And, because the tribes...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Alchemist

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursu...

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… "That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what´s happening to us, and our lives be...

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You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursu...

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Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.

The act if living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understandin...

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They're tulip seeds, the symbol of our country.But, more than that, they represent a truth you must ...

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I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around u...

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Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause...

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You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

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Philip PullmanThe Golden Compass

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

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Philip PullmanThe Golden Compass

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, ...

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She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, movin...

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Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable t...

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There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it...

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In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to wr...

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Whatever limits us we call Fate.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it

O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtes...

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In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

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Richard BachIllusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspec...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

You cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with G...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - wh...

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The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is...

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Roberto BolañoThe Savage Detectives

Faustina is a great work of the Creator. She has nothing of what you call brains; she doesn't need t...

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Years have passed, I suppose. I'm not really counting them anymore. But I think of this thing often:...

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When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they canno...

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Ruth Prawer JhabvalaMy Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything do...

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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I ...

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Salman RushdieThe Satanic Verses

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.