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“The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!”
“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”
“I am the master of my mind and fate.”
“Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.”
“Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield)”
“Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!”
“Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental.”
“Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breastTo pierce another.”
“Im not looking for fate. Im seventeen. Im looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.)”
“Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.”
“I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and k...”
“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
“When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.”
“The simple law of the universe is that you create your own reality”
“One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.”
“In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.”
“He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This wouldn't be real - something else would. You'd have been another you, instead of the one...”
“She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had ...”
“What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.”
“The future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present.”