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"'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
"A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."	R. D. Laing
"Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself."	Brian Lindsay
"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."	Albert Einstein
"Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable."	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived."	William Jennings Bryan
"Failure is a path, not a destination."	Robert Logan
"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress."	John Calvin
"For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go!"	Laurence Hope
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."	Burton Hills
"He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned."	Author Unknown
"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."	Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
"Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate."	Albert Einstein
"I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth."	Marcel Marceau
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