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“It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“What must be shall be.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new destiny, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe: what is decreed must be; and be this so!” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny, the boy thought.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“just because we've been... dealt a certain hand... it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above — to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“That's the thing about a human life—there's no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“A man's life would be intolerable if he knew what is to befall him.” Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst
“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love...” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Neither of these speculations is unreasonable, and they are mentioned to show how little men control their own destiny.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“There is a greater purpose to all this. It is your destiny.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“And God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for only one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well have been half the world apart.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“America was changing. I had a feeling of destiny and I was riding the changes.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“Then I defy you, stars!” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life....” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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