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"Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned."
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Personal Development
"It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door."
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Personal Development
"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
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Personal Development
"If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness."
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Personal Development
"Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you."
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Personal Development
"It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods, To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stolen our jewel."
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Personal Development
"We are the products of fate, from beginning to end."
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Personal Development
"Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions."
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Personal Development
"There's that day when you realize that everything that happened before that one person found you, probably happened to prepare you and to prepare everything, for that person's arrival. It's not that everything suddenly "makes sense" but it's more that you understand why this didn't work and that didn't work and you fell into this ditch and you broke a certain bone somewhere. It's so they'd find you. Or so that you'd find them. So you'd find each other."
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Personal Development
"The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable."
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"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
Action
"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
Progress
"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."
Age
"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."
Man
"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."
Character
"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."
Thought
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
Action
"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
Creativity
"What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us."
Time
"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes."
Love
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