“I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.” ThinkingKnowsTwoHandsKidsDestinyFateHappenedAchieveGreatnessLuckHeavyMy SisterMetalsHeavy Metal Author:Eric Avery
“It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .” IfsHappensDestinyFateHappenedThings Happen Book:This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950 Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
“We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.” Has BeensSaidReligionOrderFateHappenedChangedParadise Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.” PeopleWorldFeelsSelfSeemsHurtDoubtFateHappenedProtectHarderVictimBlameDenyTraumaRecoveryAssaultSelf-doubtPrecautionInspectors Author:Anna C Salter