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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...

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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Still there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and...

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Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control....

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be re...

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A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness ...

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Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the so...

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Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away b...

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How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated pl...

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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge tha...

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I’ll never fully shake that sense of absolute impotence when destiny is at work. The feeling will cl...

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Andrea PirloPenso quindi gioco

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.

Then the prophetess said to the witcher: "I shall give you this advice: wear boots made of iron, tak...

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It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten t...

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Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

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Arthur MillerA View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own d...

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But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view...

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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The r...

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How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture y...

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Bob DylanThe Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And wha...

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They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tin...

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Bruno SchulzThe Street of Crocodiles

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Prisoner of Heaven

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three mo...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three mo...

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But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her l...

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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

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Cesare PaveseThe Burning Brand: Diaries

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your...

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time ...

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Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!

Your will shall decide your destiny.

My spirit is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the w...

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The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fu...

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Reality is the raw material, language is the way I go in search of it - and the way I do not find it...

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Clarice LispectorThe Passion According to G.H.

This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf doe...

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...

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We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.

This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of the...

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A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...

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A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Will or nill. Any man who could discover h...

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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Qui...

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Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning agai...

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God's will is your deepest desires.

Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is som...

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That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you suppos...

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David BaddielWhatever Love Means

She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat,...

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Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselve...

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What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Sh...

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Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to unders...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than n...

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It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a poin...

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It seems to me that no matter whether you marry, settle down or live with a bird or not, certain one...

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And indeed if you think you're a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your...

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We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.

Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life.

Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have...

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One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own f...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be ...

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As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her...

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There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives ...

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Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn...

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I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the san...

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Destiny, I feel is also a relationship-a play between grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you ...

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What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my fav...

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But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long...

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The drums are slamming, rhythmic, exciting. As the minutes pass, it feels to me like we are collecti...

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The love between Uncle Dees and Roger was every bit as enduring as it had been immediate. They were ...

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Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though...

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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve o...

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love...

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love...

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Emma GoldmanAnarchism and Other Essays

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. Th...

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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we...

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We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over a...

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Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing...

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I am condemned to a theatrical destiny.

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Gabriel García MárquezThe General in His Labyrinth

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

Maris sighed, and put a gentle hand on his arm. "We'll do what we must, Coll. We have no choice." He...

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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot...

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There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying t...

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Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, o...

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