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The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.

The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.

The choices we make, determine our destiny

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us. We are all of the same family, though destiny has assigned us to different roles: in our relationship with animals, we should regard them as different, not inferior.

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight.

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.

The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources-preserving quality with quantity - is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

The #‎ Divine incarnates only in the individual -He or It overshadows the group. The supreme responsibility always lies with the individual. At the exact moment, in the most definite manner Destiny acts and speaks though the individual.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking survey of the varieties the latter of these beliefs has had, both within and outside the Christian tradition. Becoming Divine reconstructs an accessible and fascinating mosaic of this too-long neglected idea, utilizing figures as disparate as Orphic cultists, Augustine, and Nietzsche.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.