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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.
 They only fall, that strive to move,
 Or lose, that care to keep.  
 They only fall, that strive to move,
 Or lose, that care to keep. 
Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.
Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.
Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.
Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Men are what their mothers made them.
 We are what we must
 And not what we would be. I know that one hour
  Assures read more 
 We are what we must
 And not what we would be. I know that one hour
  Assures not another. The will and the power
   Are diverse. 
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our read more
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
 The irrevocable Hand
 That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
  The portals of our read more 
 The irrevocable Hand
 That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
  The portals of our earthly destinies;
   We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
    Close after us, forever. 
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop read more
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.