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The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. ...

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Jeanette WintersonWeight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future harde...

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Jeanette WintersonWeight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nine...

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Jerome K. JeromeSecond Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...

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Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

The course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpation, but by the individuals...

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What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in ...

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God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn wh...

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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted ...

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re a Ro...

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There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front...

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Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be d...

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Know Thyself, a wise old Greek once said. Know Thyself. Now what does this mean, boys and girls? It ...

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Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors -- he told them -- appointed to the work by the period...

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I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he c...

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From the twilight of day till the twilight of evening, a leopard, in the last years of the thirteent...

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Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, ...

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Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...

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... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has...

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I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species w...

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Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for th...

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Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face ...

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More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face ...

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A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which mak...

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I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopp...

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My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual...

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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorr...

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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that i...

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Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your ...

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Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular f...

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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...

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Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.

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Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina

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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