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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Irish
Novelist
Born:
Jun 7
,
1899
Died:
Feb 22
,
1973
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,
Rat
,
Like
,
Eagle
,
Creeps
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Sun Tzu
You
Director
Fate
Extremely
Point
Mysterious
Opponent
Subtle
Thereby
Even
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational
Love
You
Together
Heart
People
Fate
Accept
Which
Your
Whom
Binds
Things
Brings
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho Marx
Life
Man
Women
Fate
Own
Control
Him
Does
His
I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Paulo Coelho
Fate
Opportunities
Control
Believe
Our
Destiny
One-Way
One-Way Street
Left
Whether
Turn
Fulfil
Choice
Means
Sealed
Street
Right
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc
Life
You
Fate
Sacrifice
Live
Believe
Living
More
Terrible
Without
Than
Dying
Belief
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Art
Adversity
Strength
Man
Fate
Try
Hurdles
Trouble
Difficulties
Difficulty
Alive
Bitter
Dares
Give
Rises
Higher
Troubles
He
Obstacle
Obstacles
Him
Greater
Discourage
His
Encounter
Being
After
Acquired
Dismay
Skill
Who
Each
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fate
Men
Own
Minds
Only
Prisoners
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Fate
Space
Everybody
Our
Unless
Earth
See
Able
Nobody
Longer
Operate
Nor
Going
Common
Spaceship
Much
Successfully
Whole
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Viktor E. Frankl
Life
Death
Suffering
Fate
Complete
Must
Part
Without
Human
Cannot
Meaning
Then
Human Life
Even
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams
Atheist
Fate
Men
Nation
Believe
Other
Jews
More
Had
Most
Instrument
Blind
Still
Were
Than
Any
Done
Essential
Nations
Ordained
Hebrews
Eternal
Should
Believed
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