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Destiny and Overcoming
E.M. Forster
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
How True it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. J. R. R.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Destiny has two ways of crushing us— by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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