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• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Destiny, Drag

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• Yet who shall shut out Fate?

  Edwin Arnold

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.42, Routledge

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

  William James

  Evil, Spinning, Undone

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Adventure, Destiny, Choices

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2616, Delphi Classics

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• A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

  Epicurus

  Night, Tyrants, Slavery

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• Be the designer of your own destiny.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Life, Motivational, Future

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• If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

  William McFee

  Mean, Fighting, Destiny

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Wind, Needs

  1592 Edward. Henry VI PartThree, act 4, sc.4, l.31-2.

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• I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

  John Adams

  Children, Giving, House

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.616

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• Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

  Alfred Adler

  Long, Suffering, Doe

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• Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Cancer, Survival, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

  Pierre Corneille

  Sweet, Enemy, Pity

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• To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

  Pierre Corneille

  Beautiful, Country, Competition

  "Horace". Play by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene III), 1639.

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• Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Determine, Perceive

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• America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

  Ralph Ellison

  America, Woven, Description

  Invisible Man epilogue (1952)

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• We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

  Gloria Estefan

  Second Chance, Giving, Choices

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• All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

  Plato

  All Things

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, People

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

  John Dryden

  Joy, Sorrow, Flow

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• Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Friendship, Family, Friendship Day

  Malheur et Pitie canto 1 (1803)

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• Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Chance, Turns, Accounts

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• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

  O. Henry

  Adventure, Fate And Destiny, Adventurer

  O. Henry (1992). “The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Giving, Consciousness, Responsible

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• In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.

  Alan Lightman

  Real, Moving, Space

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Control your fate or somebody else will

  Heinrich von Pierer

  Destiny, Fate And Destiny, Fate Destiny

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