Destiny Quote by Richard Wright

““Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it””

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“My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.”

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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense…

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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had…

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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

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“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a…

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“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was…

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“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as…

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“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional…

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“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of…

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“absolute power is corrupting”

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“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said…

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... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this.

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Anatomy is destiny.

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“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

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“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

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Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Christoph Martin Wieland

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There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob…

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“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?”

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You can't choose what stays and what stays away.

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“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.”

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Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

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“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

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“Destiny is the ordained intention God has sacredly prepared with your name on it.”

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