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Quotes About Destiny

If you can find your North Star," he'd say, "you can find your whole universe.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with. And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course
~ Jacques Cousteau
L'Histoire ne connaît pas de miracle.
~ Jacques Roumain
no one can absolutely control the direction of his life; but each person can certainly influence it. The armchair explorers who complain that they never got their "one lucky shot" were never really infected by the incurable drive to explore. Those who have the bug—go.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, and his gun and his wagon, and his waiting horses. She had no conception of what was being asked of her, but she knew that there could be no viable alternative. She dashed inside the orphanage and grabbed the few things that belonged to her.
~ James A. Michener
The city of Los Angeles is now some twenty-four hundred miles south of central Alaska, and since it is moving slowly northward as the San Andreas fault slides irresistibly along, the city is destined eventually to become part of Alaska. If
~ James A. Michener
a word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies
~ James A. Michener
And here Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â Now the orange became Tejas: "In the middle of this mess, Tejas, Spanish to the core, God's bastion, just as in Europe." He patted the orange, reveling in its security, and said: "God arranges these things according to His grand design. Believe me, Trinidad, Tejas is not where it is by accident. And you're not in Tejas by accident. Your destiny is to rear Spanish sons who will build there cities much finer than New Orleans.
~ James A. Michener
his lost princess and his queen; but when this
~ James A. Michener
If a journey is long enough, everyone must die along the way," the old woman replied.
~ James A. Michener
The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves;
~ James Allen
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
~ James Allen
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this—that man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
~ James Allen
A man does not come to the alms-house or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires. Nor does a pure-minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power.
~ James Allen
Every man is where he is by the law of his being;
~ James Allen
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~ James Allen
Hoy estás donde tus pensamientos te han traído; mañana estarás donde tus pensamientos te lleven.
~ James Allen
MAN IS MADE OR UNMADE by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
~ James Allen
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveal him to himself
~ James Allen
you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny.
~ James Allen
A man does not come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires.
~ James Allen
Man is made or unmade via himself; within the armoury of thought he forges the weapons via which he destroys himself; he additionally models the gear with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of pleasure and power and peace.
~ James Allen
Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err. This is just as true of those who feel "out of harmony" with their surroundings as of those who are contented with them.
~ James Allen