Favorite Quotations ~  Fate & Destiny, 2 Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings

"Fate keeps on happening." ~ Anita Loos

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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~ William Jennings Bryan

You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~ Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement, 6/12/05

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny. ~ Anthony Robbins

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother,the ecology,or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~ Albert Ellis

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no one’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility, win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. ~ Elaine Maxwell

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. ~ Samuel Beckett

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~ William Jennings Bryan

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