“Envision the future that you want as reality and manufacture it out of your blood and sweat.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“There is no grand, divine plan behind your existence, you need to make and work the plan yourself.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“We're all only human, and we do the best we can with the hand that fate has dealt us.”
Source: From the Journal of Xavier Desmond
“It is never a question of what we desire,” she said sensitively. “The path we all follow is already woven for us.”
Source: The Woven Path
“Beauty is a fateful gift of the essence of truth, and here truth means the disclosure of what keeps itself concealed. The beautiful is not what pleases, but what falls within that fateful gift of truth which comes to be when that which is eternally non-apparent and therefore invisible attains its most radiantly apparent appearance.”
Source: What is called thinking?
“Saya percaya ada proses surat-menyurat. Takdir yang interaktif. Bukan satu arah. Apapun yang Anda lakukan dan *pikirkan* akan berakibat penuh pada dunia. Terlepas dari Anda menyadarinya atau tidak.”
Source: Supernova: Ksatria, Puteri, dan Bintang Jatuh
“So what if Destiny says we're fated, and so what if it says we're not?” Donghua coldly replied. “I've never feared Destiny, and I certainly don't need its charity.”
Source: Three Lives Three Worlds, The Pillow Book, Upper Volume
“The Wrath of Achilles is my theme, that fatal wrath which, in fulfillment of the will of Zeus, brought the Achaeans so much suffering and sent the gallant souls of many nobleman to Hades, leaving their bodies as carrion for the dogs and passing birds.”
Source: The Iliad
“Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.”
Source: Odd Thomas
“The fate of the architect is the strangest of all in this way. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.”