Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
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One love, one heart, one destiny.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
This is the thing that I was born to do.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
