#destiny

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved. ↗

— William Jennings Bryant

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But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#possibility #beauty

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. ↗

— Fidel Castro

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I think that by going on the path that I am, my destiny will just come to me. ↗

— Jason Derulo

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Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through. ↗

— Ada Limon

#change #destiny #dream #change

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. ↗

— Bob Marley

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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer. ↗

— Lady Gaga

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I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light. ↗

— Ang Lee

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