Destiny Quotes - Page 39

• For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose - is choosing - its own destiny this instant.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Soul

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.

  Northrop Frye

  Real, Mean, Men

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.416, University of Toronto Press

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• Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

  Amelia Barr

  Surprise

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• But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Challenges, Society, Finals

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Miracle, Arbitrary, Mystery

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• Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Humanity, Tears, Tribute

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• We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fate, Greatness

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.25

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• I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country.

  P. W. Botha

  Country, Believe, Home

  The Guardian, February 7, 2006.

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• though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Luck, Mud, Wheels

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.79

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• words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Powerful, Hate, Ambition

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.203

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• The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

  Edgar Morin

  Men, Life And Death, World

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• Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

  Henry James

  Men, Proof, Institutions

  Henry James (1974). “Henry James, Senior: a selection of his writings”

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• Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn't know it then.

  Barbara Ascher

  Sibling, Heart, Grieving

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• Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Humility, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

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• Choice is destiny's soul mate.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Choices, Soul, Mates

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• You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Children, Perfect Parents

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• Your destiny is not cancelled because of a mistake, because of a failure. Get back up and go again.

  Joel Osteen

  Mistake, Get Back, Your Destiny

  Twitter post from Oct 6, 2011

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• Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.477

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• Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Rain, Life Is, Free Will

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• If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Moon, Dust

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1853). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.142

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• Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

  Robert Kennedy

  Nature, Lying, Fate

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• A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Doe

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• My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Fate

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• I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.

  Martin Heidegger

  Past, Men, Years

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, May 31, 1976.

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• Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.

  Immortal Technique

  Government, Giving, Causes

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