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“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There will be times in which things appear hopeless. You will begin to doubt everything around you. You will even begin to doubt yourself. You will think things will never look up and you may be in the deepest, darkest, loneliest place in the world. Everything which had once been infused with wonder may appear disappointing and harsh. You may grow cynical and come to believe that this is simply the way the world is...that one must bear with the unforgiving realities of the world and only hope that it doesn’t get worse. You might grow suspicious of others, as adults tend to do, and close yourself off from the rest of the world. You might just look to the past and reminisce about better days...or you might just dwell in one place for a little too long and become nostalgic for the future. Just remember—regardless of where you are, what experiences you have, and who you have become—that there will always be those who have loved you. Those whom you may have taken for granted, but have nonetheless, always had you in their hearts and in their hopes and wishes. Lives that you have touched: whether you realize it or not. To separation you may venture, but indissolubly in union shall you drift...you will always be at the whims of forces, both great and small, and far beyond your capacity to control. That’s how all our stories go. Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“But the trouble is, I do want to be surprised. I want to choose. I broke the heart of my fate so that I could choose. I never chose; I only saw a little girl who looked like me standing on a gear at the end of the world and laughing, and that's not choosing, not really. Wouldn't you rather I chose you? Wouldn't you rather I picked our future out of all the others anyone could have?”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“Wherever you go in the next
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Countless souls share your fate,
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― Roman Payne, The Basement Trains: A 21st Century Poem

“It's up to you, not fate.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian. All are human beings. Further, the atheistic outlook puts man on his legs. There is neither divine will nor fate to control his actions. The release of free will awakens Harijans [lowest caste] and the depressed classes from the stupor of inferiority into which they were pressed all these ages when they were made to believe that they were fated to be untouchables. So I find the atheistic outlook helpful for my work [helping people]. After all it is man that created god to make society moral and to silence restless inquisitiveness about the how and why of natural phenomena. Of course god was useful though a falsehood. But like all falsehoods, belief in god also gave rise to many evils in course of time and today it is not only useless but harmful to human progress. So I take to the propagation of atheism as an aid to my work. The results justify my choice.”
― Gora, An Atheist with Gandhi

“Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”
― Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi

“I am Frustration. I am Memory-Lost. Sometimes I read a line a dozen times before it sticks. My creative force has slipped. I type slower, speak slower, think at a snail’s pace. I’m Life shapeshifted by Post Traumatic Stress, bastardized by Fate.”
― Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations

“Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.”
― Decimus Junius Juvenalis

“The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.”
― Vikas Swarup, Q & A

“The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.”
― Laila Lalami, Secret Son

“I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be”
― Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig

“I am the Lilum. Time. Truth. Destiny. The Endless River. The Wheel of Fate. You do not command me.”
― Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

“Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that the poet in New Wye and the thug in New York awoke that morning at the same crushed beat of their Timekeeper's stopwatch.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Nothing is determined by fate. We create our own fate.”
― Jessica Sankiewicz, If Only We

“All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.”
― John Milton, Samson Agonistes

“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”
― Wilsin Mizner

“A bracing wind swirls about the boy and alights gently upon his shoulder to gape frightfully at droplets of fate joined infirmly to a sweep of atmospheric and lunar forces far beyond their capabilities to resist. He takes a long, deep breath of air—cleansed through its migration—and he closes his eyes.

Scattered waves roll back in to the sea.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“The universe is made up of courses of action we have no say in, but we have a say in who we are, and in those choices we make inside, even if outside, those choices seem impossible.”
― Dianna Hardy, The Last Dragon

“You'll never make it out there. You weren't made for South Pole adventures."
Flora gave her an icy look. "I think I know by now what I was made for.”
― Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig

“You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished them to be.”
― Michelle M. Pillow, The Jaded Hunter

“Struggling alone, like the everyday and ending with the same fate.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

“I was hoping to find a way out of here and instead found you.”
― Nicki Elson, Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella

“The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously.”
― Raheel Farooq

“Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.”
― Kim Wright, City of Light

“There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.”
― Kim Wright, City of Silence

“Your work is your destiny.”
― Md. Mujib Ullah