Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you.
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.
Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.
The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here. " (Not yours. ) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose - is choosing - its own destiny this instant.
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
With your hands carve out your own destiny.
For us, destiny always feels. . . if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.
Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice
My concern over private property is that it no longer fosters individuality. The historic destiny of private property is that it has created a highly corporatized economy, and I have to ask myself why. What is it in the market that led 100 capitalists to dissolve into 10 as a result of rivalry and accumulation, 10 into 3, and I think if the system has its way, those 3 into 1?
When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.