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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Sep 10, 2025
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
No other road, no other way, No day but today!
There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
The closing of our earthly eyes is such a simple event. The shedding of the physical body does not solve the fundamental problems of enlightenment, just as changing ones clothes has nothing to do with the deep questions of life and destiny.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Hopefully I've shown them (fellow cyclists) you just need some self-belief and that you need to take your destiny into your own hands instead of waiting for it. You have to go out and force it. You need to go out and take life, and shape your life and destiny the way you need it. I hope I can pass that message along.
Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve the derogatory comments that are often made about them by the left. When one gets down to it ultimately, my anarcho-communism stems from a commitment to true individuality. My attempt to recover the power and the right of the individual to control his or her life and destiny is the basis to my anarcho-communism.
You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Destiny is no 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.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.