Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“You asked me back then if I believed in fate. I didn’t until I met you. And I’ve spent nine years thinking… — Devney Perry Copy Share Image
“What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“God has had His chance to free me, and for reasons known to Him alone, He has pinned me to ill fortune,… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
“You have to make it happen. You have to will the whole world to bend around you and the person you love.… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . .… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
“I was coming up on a cross street when a man wearing a filthy suit stepped out from around the corner of… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the reasons for an occurrence are so complex and out of our control that it helps to think of them as… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time… — Veronique Vienne Copy Share Image
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If I'd been a cowboy, it might've ended well. Somewhere on the ramble, I'm sure I'd have to sell My guns along… — Dylan Thomas McCall Copy Share Image
“But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I felt calm when I was called first runner-up because I felt it was fate. But when they announced that I was… — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“But any great happiness is a bright light, a challenge to fate to do its worst. There must not be people who… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Two strong futures lie ahead, each as possible as the other. It's rare for fate to boil down to two such evenly… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
“I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, and forewarned—is made, in Pisces, manifest. Those solitary visions that,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go, you go,… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Stop trying to be author of your romantic fate...let the universe kick in and lend a hand. Not only will you end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
