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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited read more
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.
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
 We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind
 That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff
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 We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind
 That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff
  And good from bad find no partition. 
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
 Unseen hands delay
 The coming of what oft seems close in ken,
  And, contrary, the moment, when read more 
 Unseen hands delay
 The coming of what oft seems close in ken,
  And, contrary, the moment, when we say
   "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then. 
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.
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.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Men are what their mothers made them.
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