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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.
My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me.
My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me.
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.
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.
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on read more
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them 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.
Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,
Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.
Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,
Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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.
Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
