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“Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.”

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“I had decided that it is the fate of my generation never to have known the noble law of the sea, and to live, instead, in an era when the captain leaves his ship not last, but first. Call it the new spirit of capitalism, ushered in with all the other forms of ruthlessness that mark contemporary times [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015].”

Fate Capitalism Ruthlessness New Spirit Noble Law

Author:Rachel Kushner

“Looking back on it now, I'd say one's thirties are a cruel age. At this point, I think of them as a time I whiled away unaware of the tide that can suddenly pull you out, beyond the shallows, into the sea of hardship, and even death”

Struggle Fate Aging

Author:Takashi Hiraide

“We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.”

Fate Fortune Africa The Past Zanzibar

Book:Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival

Source: Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival

“"One could have mistakenly assumed that each train could choose its own destination. But there was no choice. The Nazi operator sat in the station booth, his hands on levers and switches, forcing each train along its given path.”

War Fate Choice Holocaust Nazi

Book:Train

Source: Train

“If psychics are real, it implies that the universe is far vaster and stranger than conventional perception would state. If psychics can talk to the dead, that removes the sting of mortality and loss. It also suggests there is predestination, a way to cheat the vagaries of Fate with foreknowledge. The cost for believing in them is tiny indeed compared to that.”

Fate Psychic Foretelling

Book:Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“Fate is a given, destiny is what we do with it”

Destiny Fate Shavasti

Book:Embracing the Power of Truth

Source: Embracing the Power of Truth

“Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.”

God Prayer

Author:Emmanuel D'Alzon

“In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasionally quite astonishing things. And that was his fate.”

Fate Happy Endings

Book:Just in Case

Source: Just in Case

“I embrace my fate; spiritual journey.”

Source: Think Great: Be Great!

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