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“We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.”
“We are pushed towards eternal silence from the moment we are born. So when sadness tries to stifle us, we must not give in. We must keep whispering.”
“There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..”
“Call your destiny. Put in your work. Manifest your blessings.”
“It was at that point Ginny felt a presence and turning to look into his eyes she knew destiny was waiting, just around the corner, over the hill. His dark limpid pools, full of hope and wonder, gaz...”
“I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.”
“It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.”
“The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through c...”
“None of us really know what were doing, Dia replied. We just go out there and do it and have faith itll turn out okay.”
“That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.”
“I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that o...”
“Everything since the beginning of time was working together to make my happiness possible: and then you. You walked into the audiovisual lab in your flannel shirt...and you fucked it up! You fucked...”
“Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.”
“Why would you want to be free of your destiny? Nothing else will satisfy. As for freedom, that's a matter of the heart. Pursue your destiny, and you'll find your freedom along the way.”
“The crowded city streets, the chaos of disorderly lives nothing could keep her from wreaking love. She always wanted to let go, and I always wanted to own. She always had it coming, and I never ha...”
“We don't become gods because we think we are gods. That is only a sign of ego. We become gods when we realise that a part of the universal divinity lives within us; when we understand our role in t...”
“Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.”
“Only in stillness the windOnly from ice the flame.When all were Nameless, the wise will tellIt was only by knowing the otherThat they came to know themselves.”
“The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it's purposeful, we can fight it, it's hard to defeat, but we have a ch...”
“Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily l...”
