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41294b5 One love, one heart, one destiny. bob-marley compassion humanity destiny heart love inspirational Robert Marley
e321dd7 Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. moving-on history letting-go destiny motivational success happiness life inspirational let-go Steve Maraboli
7f0ccfd What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements. responsibility courage destiny empowerment self-improvement self-control Anais Nin
270ed29 You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny. choice inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living destiny inspiring life inspirational decision decisions choices Roy T. Bennett
eef149b Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end. karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace Daisaku Ikeda
a83e5ef Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you! action destiny change empowerment motivational success life inspirational mistakes Steve Maraboli
2dc802d You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory. challenged denied discouraged history destiny motivational inspirational beaten defeated betrayed victim hurt Steve Maraboli
fd25e59 I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street death destiny life Stephen W. Hawking
9d9671b What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? destiny johnnie-marcone Jim Butcher
757c081 it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace Daisaku Ikeda
c7a3138 We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die. fate destiny strength inspirational Douglas Coupland
7ba784a Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. destiny inspirational einstein Albert Einstein
c84bcc0 Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself. karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace Daisaku Ikeda
32ec10d Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life! action new-day victim-mentality history destiny motivational life truth inspirational mediocre victim circumstances greatness today shape power mundane Steve Maraboli
9582da5 Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing. spirit beauty inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living destiny happiness life truth inspirational belief-quotes life-experience belief beautiful C. JoyBell C.
4cc5086 I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me. humanism freedom spirit inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living destiny inspiring happiness life inspirational stained-glass-window C. JoyBell C.
b269a1b Journeys end in lovers meeting. lovers destiny meetings journeys William Shakespeare
f814306 You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs? destiny life exist Libba Bray
0a6f8ec I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. fate destiny life Jeanette Winterson
2d7ee33 There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........ is found the flight! flying-spirit letting-go inspiration inspirational-life inspirational-quotes living destiny god life truth inspirational footprints flying meaning-of-life belief C. JoyBell C.
0d96a80 No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? action history destiny change motivational success life inspirational seize-the-day today Steve Maraboli
b2af367 "Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!" fate happy destiny happiness tides-have-turned blessing turning-point heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson frank-zhang house-of-hades nico-di-angelo rick-riordan battle surprise fortune luck Rick Riordan
18a0cb3 In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? destiny inspirational art on-writing Rainer Maria Rilke
9dcce7f "You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him." love-story lovers destiny love teddy-kent soulmate emily soulmates space L.M. Montgomery
8faf4ce A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. absolute-happiness karma self-reformation humanism destiny inspirational buddhism peace Daisaku Ikeda
4ba0904 When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. destiny identity imagination inspirational transcendence self transformation power creativity RuPaul
9d20cf3 How would your life be different if...You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self. action history opportunity destiny change empowerment motivational life inspirational Steve Maraboli
00bcb1a All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. freedom destiny elite tyranny Thomas Pynchon
7713792 When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are. fate destiny Ursula K. Le Guin
8cb75ef The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form. karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace Daisaku Ikeda
f4cff9c Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. love-story lovers destiny love wisdom destination journeys William Shakespeare
9f97d2f The course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpation, but by the individuals. The strongest army is, at its most basic level, a collection of individuals. Their decisions, their passions, their foolishness, and their dreams shape the years to come. If there is any lesson to be learned from history, it is that all too often the fate of armies, of cities, of entire realms rests upon the actions of one person's decision, good or bad, right or wrong, big or small, can unwittingly change the world. But history can be quite the slattern. One never knows who that person is, where he might be, or what decision he might male. It is almost enough to make me believe in destiny. destiny individiual furies-of-calderon Jim Butcher
80c8422 Have all beautiful things sad destinies? beauty destiny question sad Jean Rhys
00fadfc "Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules." You can't really believe that!" I do believe it. That man's misfortune is that he cannot accept his caste, his fate." I know that the Indians wear their caste as a mark upon their foreheads for all to see. I know that in England, we have our own unacknowledged caste system. A laborer will never hold a seat in Parliament. Neither will a woman. I don't think I've ever questioned such things until this moment. But what about will and desire? What if someone wants to change things." Kartik keeps his eyes on the room "You cannot change your caste. You cannot go against fate." That means there is no hope of a better life. It is a trap." That is how you see it," he says softly. What do you mean?" It can be a relief to follow the path that has been laid oud for you, to know your course and play your part in it." But how can you be sure that you are following the right course? What if there is no such thing as destiny, only choice?" Then I do not choose to live without destiny," he says with a slight smile." fate destiny Libba Bray
d35fcbd No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. fate destiny doom Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
c8ec58b This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete within itself its own arrangement and history and finale there is no necessity that the dancers contain these things within themselves as well. In any event the history of all is not the history of each nor indeed the sum of those histories and none here can finally comprehend the reason for his presence for he has no way of knowing even in what the event consists. In fact, were he to know he might well absent himself and you can see that that cannot be any part of the plan if plan there be. fate war history destiny Cormac McCarthy
8cdd43d The wind god Favonius had warned him in Croatia: If you let your anger rule you ... your fate will be even sadder than mine. But how could his fate be anything but sad? Even if he lived through this quest, he would have to leave both camps forever. That was the only way he would find peace. He wished there was another option - a choice that didn't hurt like the waters of the Phlegethon - but he couldn't see one. fate destiny life reflection nico-di-angelo Rick Riordan
eaab255 Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. destiny life Darren Shan
470c8fa At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything. destiny moment lives Paulo Coelho
806cdc0 And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction. lies destiny cymoril yyrkoon eternal-champion elric-of-melnibone Michael Moorcock
db87fd7 "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves." Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars." destiny strength augustus-waters John Green
06fd145 "Saying something is "meant to be" is a cop out. It's a way for people to deal when they screw up or when life hands them a bowl of shit stew. The things that are meant to be are the things we can't control, the things we don't cause, the things that happen regardless of who or what we are. Like sunsets and snow-fall and natural disasters. I've never believed hardship or suffering was meant to be. I've never believed relationships were meant to be. We choose. In large part, we choose. We create, we make mistakes, we burn bridges, we build new ones." destiny meant-to-be Amy Harmon
248105f Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times. destiny Neil Gaiman
a18f653 "It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events." destiny control Rachel Caine
8e7d9b9 To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child) fate destiny friendship Joan Reardon
5a0e50b Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny. destiny island south-carolina landscape luck Pat Conroy
2ba12bb You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me. fate destiny love jondalar Jean M. Auel
bf20af1 "My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle" destiny hope mother-s-love-for-son J.K. Rowling
945d6ed "I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny." writing destiny god life chain-of-life the-scarlet-pimpernel god-s-will question Emmuska Orczy
28f920a What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire. destiny A.J. Hartley and David Hewson
afde51e Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny. courage destiny listen-heart choose-love choose Paulo Coelho
92849cd The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust. destiny inspirational Robert Harris
4693a6b The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell? fate responsibility destiny self-deception devil Umberto Eco
10be694 "That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else." present fate good future honesty past destiny life truth aside complete forgo meant not part section set survive to decide done finish discover over end path be forget dead Robin Hobb
44fef85 When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. destiny art consumerism soul creativity Steven Pressfield
0a8d036 I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them. Nobu's touch had made a deeper impression on me than most. No one could tell me whether he would be my ultimate destiny, but I had always sensed the en between us. Somewhere in the landscape of my life Nobu would always be present. But could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, where not even I would ever see them? hopes destiny memoirs-of-a-geisha geisha clay impression memoirs Arthur Golden
08551c6 Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together. future destiny love blue-bloods lost-in-time melissa-de-la-cruz prophecy Melissa de la Cruz
6ef0852 Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. understanding fate self-determination destiny education ignorance Pearl S. Buck
be03c00 The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl. destiny werewolf destruction Darren Shan
703e39f If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned. mankind destiny Darren Shan
2f0338e he thought. destiny rebirth reincarnation Kathryn Lasky
143abbd They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn. destiny future-plans pride Esmeralda Santiago
d8eca8a There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis. fate history destiny consequences Wallace Stegner
c12f599 Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in faces--though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment. fate destiny freewill Herman Melville
f38b8a9 Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma. karma destiny buddhism Jon Kabat-Zinn
e569268 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. fate time destiny Vladimir Nabokov
cad9f1c Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end. destiny grey-ladies sandman ending creation Neil Gaiman
d7c97f1 In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another. It had started with his father's train wreck, paralyzing him at first, later inspiring him to move as far as possible, to make a new life on the other side of the world. There was the disappearance of the name Gogol's great-grandmother had chosen for him, lost in the mail somewhere between Calcutta and Cambridge. This had led, in turn, to the accident of his being named Gogol, defining and distressing him for so many years. He had tried to correct that randomness, that error. And yet it had not been possible to reinvent himself fully, to break from that mismatched name. His marriage had been something of a misstep as well. And the way his father had slipped away from them, that had been the worst accident of all, as if the preparatory work of death had been done long ago, the night he was nearly killed, and all that was left for him was one day, quietly, to go. And yet these events have formed Gogol, shaped him, determined who he is. They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. family destiny life contingence coincidence Jhumpa Lahiri
fb188f6 An obscure character by the name of Belial. He is interpreted as a minion of the devil by some scholars, but that is wrong. It is ignorance. The name means, literally speaking, 'one who cannot be yoked,' and it is really every one of us who takes control of our own destiny while others blow in the wind. We may be punished for it, but we would never do it another way. We are all Belials. destiny take-control-of-your-fate devil Matthew Pearl
9825d33 Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time. And there's nothing romantic about keeping your head down to avoid getting shot, or trying to save a friend who's been injured, or coming face to face with a creature who is as smart and mean and as terrified of dying as you are, and who wants to make sure that if someone is left on the ground there, it's you and not it. time romantic destiny fraction second ground head shot friend someone John Scalzi
7b345c2 Destiny is not a straightaway. It's cluttered with corners and all of them are dark. We make the turns we do...and find ourselves where we are. destiny J.R. Ward
d208ebe I thought of the fate of Descartes' famous formulation: man as 'master and proprietor of nature.' Having brought off miracles in science and technology, this 'master and proprietor' is suddenly realizing that he owns nothing and is master neither of nature (it is vanishing, little by little, from the planet), nor of History (it has escaped him), nor of himself (he is led by the irrational forces of his soul). But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master? The planet is moving through the void without any master. There it is, the unbearable lightness of being. history nature humanity destiny god self-determinism modern meaning-of-life end-of-history existentialism Milan Kundera
56c0976 People would rather believe in fairy godmothers and divine intervention than to think that you took charge of your own destiny. fairy-tales feminism destiny Margaret Peterson Haddix
032e8e6 We all want to feel like the most beautiful girl in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true. destiny dreams cinderella-story cinderella purpose Beth Moore Jones
6a61bfa An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. The realization shook me profoundly, it was the fruit of this experience. I had often speculated with images of the future, dreamed of roles that I might be assigned, perhaps as poet or prophet or painter, or something similar. All that was futile. I did not exist to write poems, to preach or to paint, neither I nor anyone else. All of that was incidental. Each man had only one genuine vocation--to find the way to himself. He might end up as poet or madman, as prophet or criminal--that was not his affair, ultimately it was of no concern. His task was to discover his own destiny--not an arbitrary one--and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness. man destiny enlightement hesse Hermann Hesse
c972126 The love between Uncle Dees and Roger was every bit as enduring as it had been immediate. They were never to be seen apart, man and dog, not since the moment of their introduction. Very quickly after their arrival in Amsterdam four years earlier, Roger had given Alma to understand that he was no longer her dog--that, in fact, he had never been her dog, nor had he ever been Ambrose's dog, but that he had been Dees' dog all along, by force of pure and plain destiny. The fact that Roger was born in distant Tahiti, whereas Dees van Devender resided in Holland, had been the result, Roger appeared to believe, of an unfortunate clerical error, now thankfully rectified. destiny man-and-dog Elizabeth Gilbert
124c204 Certainly, all of us at Callahan's were heir to the tradition of the B-movie -- and the A-movie for that matter -- that any female who enters your life in a dramatic manner must be your fated love. destiny love entrance dramatic-moment love-at-first-sight Spider Robinson
5e3060f Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain. money words time pain love-quotes literature marriage mind grief feminism loss history reading prayer nature world depression people women freedom dream joy future politics friends leadership quote work inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation family destiny imagination fantasy dreams sadness positive-thinking strength music friendship motivational spiritual heart endtime fiction-food-for-though humanity-humour intelligence-is-attractive life-and-living-life-philosophy magic-spirit meditation-men passion-peace patience-johnson pentecost reality-relationship trust-war earning motivational-quotes repentance wisdom-quotes society purpose quotes forgiveness self-improvement power self-help soul patience psychology Patience Johnson
ffb2470 Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again. destiny homecomings journeys soulmates Cory Doctorow
51ba79a ... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ... destiny it-s-the-journey José Saramago
d6bd545 [...] o futuro era um leque de possibilidades, nao apenas uma trilha unica e inalteravel. Contudo, das trilhas, umas eram bem mais provaveis do que outras, e algumas eram tao provaveis que pareciam quase impossiveis de se evitar. Nesses casos, a palavra usada era destino. destiny trilhas trail Mary Jo Putney
2e3c89a Caracterul inseamna destin. [...]Caracterul, singur, este insuficient pentru profetii. Exista un alt ingredient fundamental, impredictibil. Cum sa-i spunem? Noroc? Sansa? Intamplarea de a te afla la locul potrivit, la momentul potrivit? destiny hazard Irvin D. Yalom
e3b43c4 Besides death, your destiny is not inescapable. destiny David McRaney
6f04210 I have always felt like a pawn... My skin color's been a curse, my missionary parents made me sober and intense, my school days brought me up against political crimes against Animals, my love life imploded and my lover died, and if I had any life's work of my own, I haven't found it yet, except in animal husbandry, if you could call it that. fate free-will destiny Gregory Maguire
53d77f1 Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered. clearly penny fate human destiny fountain events wish Barbara Kingsolver