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Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
No Country for Old Men
A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it
Destiny is the name we give to a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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