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- Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
- David Seabury
- Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
- John Oliver Hobbes
- Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards
- A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
- Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
- Austin O'Malley
- No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.
- Randolph Silliman Bourne
- Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
- Author Unknown
- "Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
- Samuel Smiles
- The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
- Coventry Patmore
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