Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is read more

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one read more

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this read more

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

For I am a weed,
Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,
Where'er the surge read more

For I am a weed,
Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,
Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.

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

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

In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.

In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.

No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
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No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping read more

And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny.