“Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.” WayMayReasonHandsAmericaLyingNatureVisionPrinciplesDestinyFateEventsPrideDetermineImpulseArroganceOur FutureTidesOur DestinyIrresistibleMatched Author:Robert Kennedy
“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.” LoveHas BeensNatureDestinyFateCreaturesAnd LoveFellowsCastsLove YourselfFlexibilitySincerelyAbility To Adapt Author:Marcus Aurelius
“Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.” FirstsNationsNatureFateApartmentExileMiraculousImpotence Book:The Satanic Verses Source: The Satanic Verses
“Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” MenDoeScienceReligionNatureInspiringCourageEnvironmentFateNative AmericanSeattleStrandsWeb Of Life Author:Chief Seattle
“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.” NatureExistenceFateSummerIdealsGardenEssenceComicTragicJuneLyrical Book:Animal Faith and Spiritual Life Source: Animal Faith and Spiritual Life
“My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.” LawDesireWishNatureFateTravelGardenHarmonyIntimateInfusion Author:Claude Monet