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“No matter how lightly a person steps, they cannot avoid some tragedies.”

Book:Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

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“So if it wasn’t fate, what brought you to the concert tonight?” . . . . ..he said, “You.” “Me?” He nodded. “Yes, you.” “But you didn’t know you’d meet me.” “A meaningless detail. Fate works forward, backward, and crisscrosses sideways and couldn’t care less how we scan its purposes with our rickety little befores and afters.”

Fate Forward After Before Backward

Book:Find Me

Source: Find Me

“I wanted to change my fate, to force it down another road. I wanted to stand in the river of time and make it flow a different direction, if just for a little while.”

Time Fate Ambition River

Book:The Boneless Mercies

Source: The Boneless Mercies

“Life will be a whole lot better if we understand what our salvation in Christ means.”

God Success Accomplishment Prince The Best Option Higher Living Jaachynma Risk It Be Different Agu

Book:The Prince and the Pauper

Source: The Prince and the Pauper

“As A-ma said, every story, every dream, every waking minute of our lives is filled with one fateful coincidence after another.”

Dream Fate Future Coincidence

Book:The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Source: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

“Wyrd oft nered unfaegne, eorl, ponne his ellen deah. Often, for undaunted courage, fate spares the man it has not already marked.”

Inspirational Courage Fate Wyrd

Book:Beowulf

Source: Beowulf

“Fate is what is given to us; destiny is what we are summoned to become. In the interplay of the two, human character plays a role. Hubris, or the fantasy that we know enough to know enough, seduces us toward choices that lead to unintended consequences. Hamartia, the failure to see clearly enough, to see humbly enough, is a lens through which we imperfectly envision the world, unavoidably distorting and reductive, but convincing at the moment nonetheless.”

Character Destiny Fate Hubris Hamartia

Book:What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“Life picks us up and throws us around, but for the most part we’re aimed in the right direction where we can learn the lessons of our Earthwalk”

Fate Destiny Quotes Fate Destiny

Book:Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure”

Existence Fate Existential

Book:The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“It's not who you are, it's what you don't become that hurts the most.”

Reality Fate Unfulfilled Life

Author:Oscar Levant

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