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• We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Self, Calling

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Two, Suffering, Dies

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• Like warp and woof all destinies
  Are woven fast,
  Linked in sympathy like the keys
  Of an organ vast.
  Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar;
  Break but one
  Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
  Through all will run.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Running, Keys, Mars

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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• Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Impossible, Born, Turns

  Margaret Fuller (1855). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century: And Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman”, p.336

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• I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

  Lady Gaga

  Blessing, Thinking, Purpose

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• Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Men, Discovery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.79, Penguin

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• Control your own destiny or someone else will.

  Jack Welch

  Motivational, Confidence, Life Changing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Fate, Eagles, Literature

  The House in Paris pt. 2, ch. 2 (1935)

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• The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

  Norman Cousins

  Failure, Fate, People

  Saturday Review Magazine, April 15, 1978.

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• This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Presidential, This Generation, Generations

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fate

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  World, Mystery, Reason

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Cells, Brain

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• We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

  Les Brown

  Success, Dream, Determination

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  I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, Change, Philosophy

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fate, Frustration, Giving

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Single, Peace

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• I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Clay, Literature

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• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  R. D. Laing

  Fate, Diversity, Violence

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

  Marcel Marceau

  Plot, Opera, Mood

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• [Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Puppets, Strings, Sardonic

  "Somerset Maugham". Book by Ted Morgan, 1980.

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• As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Doe, Superstitions

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.154, GENERAL PRESS

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• The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

  Eric Berne

  Skulls, Goes On, Humans

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• If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, America, Goal

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• Our history is not our destiny.

  Alan Cohen

  Future, Our Destiny

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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