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• You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

  Ben Cross

  Path, Faces, You Choose

  "Fictional character: Sarek". "Star Trek", www.imdb.com. April 6, 2009.

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• You have to always look ahead, always be positive. It's your choice, your destiny. You have to enjoy life.

  Stan Shih

  Choices, Enjoy Life, Being Positive

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• Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Decision, Determine, Our Lives

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• Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

  Derek Rydall

  Self, Tree, Needs

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• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. It can keep a soul alive even if all that survives is a shimmering. I've even seen it. I've been bathed in it. I've been changed by it.

  M.J. Rose

  Passion, Soul, Alive

  M. J. Rose (2016). “The Witch of Painted Sorrows: A Novel”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.241, Jaico Publishing House

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• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

  Cesare Pavese

  Hard Times, Captains, Ships

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• Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

  Cesare Pavese

  Fundamentals, Levels, Realizing

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

  Cesare Pavese

  Fate, Happened, Happens

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.345, Routledge

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• O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Heart, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.49

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• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Fate, Sea, Rivers

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.497, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

  George Washington

  Effort, Our Actions, Human Nature

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1769). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.288

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• Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Two

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life Changing, Clothes, Body

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 68, 1982.

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• A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Pain, Chains That Bind, Joy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

  Lin Yutang

  China, Conqueror, Seems

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• The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Men, Woven, Turns

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.112, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.

  Paul Tillich

  Strange, Given, Bases

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.185, University of Chicago Press

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• To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Men, Deep Water, Depth

  "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

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• Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.

  Charles Darwin

  Pride, Men, Giving

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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• If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

  George Ade

  Work, Mean, Men

  George Ade (1904). “True bills”

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• So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Opportunity, Ideas

  "The Action Americans Need". www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2009.

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• Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people.

  Pythagoras

  Grief, Fate, Giving

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• The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

  George Arnold

  Glasses, Life Is, Fragments

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.45

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