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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Fate is what happens to you when your luck runs out.
Fate is what happens to you when your luck runs out.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All read more
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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.
 Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
  O, read more 
 Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
  O, that that earth which kept the world in awe
   Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw! 
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
 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. 
 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.