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<...> [Rainer Maria Rilke] speaks of absorbing Earth's phenomena with the full frenzy of human relish and insight as our destiny: It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again... We are the bees of the invisible... [Our work is] the continual conversion of the beloved visible and tangible world into the invisible vibrations and agitation of our own nature.
- Diane Ackerman

It's time to leave fear behind or you'll be robbed of your destiny. You don't need confidence in yourselves or in your own power. Be strong in the Lord. When disaster seems close, don't be discouraged. God will never leave you.
- Tessa Afshar

Yes, all you need do is to change your orientation and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that He can make you whole, change your status, and add value to your destiny.
- Jaachynma N E Agu

Dont allow ignorance to further enslave your destiny.
- Jaachynma N E Agu

The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!
- Jaachynma N E Agu

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
- Paulo Coelho

The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.
- Paulo Coelho

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it.
I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.
- Paulo Coelho

Dont forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.......above all dont forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion
- Paulo Coelho

Follow your destiny and the whole universe will conspire to help you...Follow your own destiny and dont let life force you to follow it's destiny
- Paulo Coelho

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
- Heraclitus

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
- Max Lucado

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
- Aristotle

Choice not chance determines your destiny
[my family motto...credited to Aristotle]
- Aristotle

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
- Marcus Aurelius

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?
- Steve Maraboli

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
- Steve Maraboli

Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness
- Steve Maraboli

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!
- Steve Maraboli

...Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night.
- P C Cast

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?
- David Baddiel

We ought to face our destiny with courage.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
- Dennis Banks

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
- Charles Barkley

For all you know, this moment, this second, or the next, or the next, could be your destiny. It's not about having plans. It's about having purpose and being who, not what you want to be.
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

If rape and deadly poison, daggers and the flame / Have not embroidered some diverting scenery / Upon the boring canvas of our destiny, / The slackness of our souls, alas! must be to blame!
- Charles Baudelaire

Fate and destiny go hand in hand. It is impossible to change our destiny. Only the path upon which we walk to reach our destination alters. If we should stray from that path, fate will take control and guide us in the right direction.
- J A Belfield

No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny.
- John Steinbeck

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.
- Dirk Benedict

You can be great only if it is your destiny.
- Andrea Bocelli

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
- William Shakespeare

Are you up to your destiny?
- William Shakespeare

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
- Alex Borstein

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
- Ann Brashares

He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?'
It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.
- Libba Bray

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to allexcept the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
- John F Kennedy

Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold

I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone from the moment we're born. We choose our destiny, our ultimate fate. But I also think that we don't realize the choices we've made until after we make them. We're racing down a freeway, only to realize we've missed all the exits, and the only direction we can go is dead ahead.
- Neal Shusterman

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.
- Leo Buscaglia

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi

When clouds will become heavier than the land in us led our entire life by the steps of our Destiny, we will understand that not their moments' rain has darkened the sun of our life, but the failure to be ourselves.
- Sorin Cerin

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
- Eugene Cernan

Come forth, Paladins!
Fulfill your destiny!
- Andry Chang

Don't let the Dogma of men to interfere with your Destiny
- Bernard Kelvin Clive

Our history is not our destiny.
- Alan Cohen

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
- E E Cummings

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.
- Annie Dillard

Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will...And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger, fear or revenge. Do not fear, what is yours to use. Only beware the ends to which it is turned, and know the means will truly determine the outcome.
- Derek Donais

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
- Ursula K Le Guin

It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)
- Henry Miller

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
- Henry Miller

Don't forget your history nor your destiny
- Bob Marley

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
- Freeman Dyson

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.
- Albert Schweitzer

I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.
- Michelle Moran

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are...
...We must always take risks. That is our destiny..
- T S Eliot

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
- Hector Elizondo

Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.
What we think, we become.
My father always said that... and I think I am fine.
- Margaret Thatcher

In your darkest hour always there lies the truth awakening your soul with the dawn of light. Never let fear over shadow your destiny.
- Poetic Evolution

Daisy didn't just change our lives, she changed our destiny.
- Maryam Faresh

BEYOND THE MIST, the darkness and shadow, he waits, reaching out through a veil of gossamer threads'your
future,' he whispers, 'your destiny'.
- Charlotte Featherstone

You will wake only if kissed by a young man who is truly your love, truly your destiny, one who would walk miles and face torturous tests to find you.
- Alex Flinn

Do what we may to shape the mysterious stuff of which our lives are composed, the dark threads of our destiny will always re-emerge.
- Victor Hugo

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
- Laurence J Peter

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
- Bill Frist

To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
- Barack Obama

At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from,how much money you have,what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesnt have to determine where you'll end up. No ones writthen your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.
- Barack Obama

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.
- Neil Gaiman

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
- Arthur Golden

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
- Arthur Golden

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

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
- Mark Victor Hansen

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
- Rita Hayworth

And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?
- David Hewson

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
- Napoleon Hill

Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun.
- Sarah Holman

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.
- Anthony Horowitz

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
- Alija Izetbegovic

Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.
- Darren L Johnson

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
- Barbara Jordan

They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your
destiny?". Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps
knowing about gravity.
- Kedar Joshi

If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.
- Jarod Kintz

In the immortal words of myself, "If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt." Likewise, if cyborgs one day come to be viewed as so human-like that they are accepted as equals, then I cry for the cyborg named Mel T. Down.
- Jarod Kintz

By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.
- Michio Kaku

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
- Islom Karimov

The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. to move on toward your destiny.
- Alyson Noel

You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is." I squint, having no idea what she's talking about. But just as I start to ask,she shakes her head and says, "This is our destiny. Not yours.
- Alyson Noel

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.
- Larry King

There comes a moment in life when you say to yourself enough. This is ENOUGH! Then you take a walk with your destiny. To change. To fulfill your purpose. We all have it. But are you willing to take that first step?
- Besa Kosova

Along this road, we won't stop moving forward
Not even if we become separated from one another.
For us, most of all, there was never a time, never a place where you could just stand still
But even so, if there were times when we were afraid, when we'd look back on it all and wonder
We'd just say that is was our destiny, wouldn't we?
So we started off, all walking down the same road
- Tite Kubo

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will..
- George Lucas

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
- Gregory Maguire

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
- Gregory Maguire

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Lao Tzu

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
- Orison Swett Marden

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.
- Orison Swett Marden

Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.
- Mollie Marti

See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand.
- Robert R Mccammon

We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.
- Robert R Mccammon

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
- David O Mckay

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
- William Mckinley

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
- Louise Mensch

A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.
- Thomas Merton

Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion. You are strong enough to sit in the space between spaces and allow divine inspiration to shed some light. When you put positive energy and productive effort into the world it will come back to you. Occasionally in ways you might not immediately understand and on a time frame you didn't expect. Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.
- Jillian Michaels

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.
- Beth Moore

Phoebe doesn't quite believe in fate the way I do. She says you have to chase your destiny, and she always expects life to be like a romantic comedy: all you have to do is dress the part of the heroine, and pretty soon you'll be kissing some hottie while fountains spew and music swells in the background.
- Lauren Morrill

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.
- John O Donohue

All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time.
- John O Donohue

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
- Jean Nidetch

In the Night World there's this idea called the soulmate principle. It says that every person has one soulmate out there, just one. And that person is perfect for you and is your destiny.
- L J Smith

When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.
- L J Smith

You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
- Ben Okri

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.
- James A Owen

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
- Cesare Pavese

There's something AMAZING about you. You owe it to yourself to fulfill your destiny. You were put on earth for a reason. Don't betray yourself because of other people opinions of who you should be. God has already implanted within you who you MEANT to be. Trust your gut instincts.
- Yvonne Pierre

Ignite the fire within you and it will allow you to live your special dreams in life. You were born for it and your destiny.Now...live it!
- Timothy Pina

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
- Anthony Robbins

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
- Anthony Robbins

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.
- Henry Rollins

If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.
- Mitt Romney

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.
- Mitt Romney

as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.
- Edward Rutherfurd

Ideals are like stars;you will not succeed in touching thm 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.
- Carl Schurz

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea fearing man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny
- Carl Schurz

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
- Diane Setterfield

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
- Tavis Smiley

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
- Tony Snow

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
- William Irwin Thompson

Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.
- O J Toks

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
- Paul Tsongas

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
- Abraham Verghese

The key to your happiness is to...own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. [Otherwise] you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
- Abraham Verghese

The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
- Abraham Verghese

I firmly believe that we are all given signs and dreams and put in situations that define who we were and who we are to become. All of it points towards our destiny. All we need to do is listen carefully to the messages and follow our dreams. It is in our dreams that we find our true identities and where our destiny awaits.
- Isaiah Washington

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.
- Michael York

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
- Ravi Zacharias

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