#destiny

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny. ↗

— Gretchen McNeil

#destiny #life #life

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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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

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

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

— Fidel Castro

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