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Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. |
William Shakespeare |
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. |
Joseph Heller |
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Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. |
Henry Miller |
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Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. |
Seneca |
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I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you; but one thing I know - the only ones among you who will be really happy will be those who have sought and found the way to serve |
Albert Schweitzer |
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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 really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve |
Albert Schweitzer |
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. |
Douglas Adams |
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In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually. |
Victor Hugo |
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Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven |
Robert Burton |
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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. |
Henry Miller |
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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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