Destiny and Overcoming

There is no education like adversity.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are seal’d: I strove against the stream and all in vain: Let the great river take me to the main: No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield; Ask me no more.

 

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. J. R. R.

 

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”

 

Hos successus alit: possunt, quia posse videntur. These success encourages: they can because they think they can.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off?

Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he can count on nothing but himself: that he is alone, left alone on earth in the middle of his infinite responsibilities, with neither help nor succor, with no other goal but the one he will set for himself, with no other destiny but the one he will forge on this earth.

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. J. R.

 

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive. Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain, This is the Will of the Yukon—Lo, how she makes it plain!

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. J. R. R.

If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked line.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

In this world we run the risk of having tochoose between being either the anvil or thehammer.

The only freedom the gods grant us Of our own free will to their sovereignty. Since only in the illusion of freedom

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

That which is possible is inevitable.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath:—a source of little visible delight, but necessary.