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“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.”

Life Action Attitude Our Lives Fate Determine

Author:Javan

“Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.”

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Author:Elbert Hubbard

“There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.”

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Author:Fay Weldon

“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”

Life Inspiration Destiny Fate Our Destiny

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!”

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Book:The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).

Source: The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).

“There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.”

Knows Life Mean Persons Has Beens Whole Fate Tragedy Surface Complaining Whole Life Tragic Concealed Shattered Indigestion

Book:Essential Turgenev

Source: Essential Turgenev

“While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.”

Life Years Steps Fate Speed Wheels Permit

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.”

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Book:Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

Source: Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

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Book:Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

“There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.”

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Author:Ingrid Weir

“My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”