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Destiny Quotes
"I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards."
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"It was once stated that God didn't play with dice, but then I discovered that most of the Gods did play with dice. However, they didn't see Destiny playing chess the entire time behind them. They never stood a chance, seeing that Destiny was on both sides of the board."
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"For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."
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"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."
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"There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route."
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"In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder."
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"Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But sometimes when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map."
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"He strained his ears, and the darkness felt heavier than before. Oppressive.'We're hungry. That came from behind him.'They smell tasty, a voice to his left hissed.'I don't like this, Andrew said, feeling like the world around them was spinning with voices, taunting, echoing them.'I don't like this, a voice parroted. 'I don't like this. I don't like this. I don't like this."
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"Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny."
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"He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel."
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"Thank you to all the people who have triggered my issues. You have helped me clarify what they are, start the healing process and ultimately become a better person."
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"All we are not stares back at what we are."
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"I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other."
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"In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies."
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"We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny."
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"Some day I shall be President."
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"It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."
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"What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose - and that purpose is to benefit you."
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"Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?"
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"Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it."
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"His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of people in this world, she had told him, and the spirits will see that most of them, you never have to meet. But there are one or two that you are tied to, and spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right."
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"It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny... It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and you will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."
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"I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it."
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"Destiny is like a train with no brakes, unstoppable."
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"He watched the fire and if he saw portents there it was much the same to him. He would live to look upon the western sea and he was equal to whatever might follow for he was complete at every hour. Whether his history should run concomitant with men and nations, whether it should cease. He'd long forsworn all weighing of consequence and allowing as he did that men's destinies are given yet he usurped to contain within him all that he would ever be in the world and all that the world would be to him and be his charter written in the urstone itself he claimed agency and said so and he'd drive the remorseless sun on to its final endarkenment as if he'd ordered it all ages since, before there were paths anywhere, before there were men or suns to go upon them."
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