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Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. -- John F. Kennedy
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers. -- Andre Malraux
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny. -- Freeman Dyson
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. -- Norman Cousins
Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself. -- Sakyong Mipham
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. -- John Dewey
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny. -- Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. -- Barney Oliver
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. -- Barney Oliver
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny. -- Swami Vivekananda
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. -- John F. Kennedy
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. -- Albert Camus
Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God. -- Swami Vivekananda
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny. -- Aldous Huxley
Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being. -- Claire Fontaine
Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves. -- Madame de Stael
Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest waves of human destiny Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not retreat! Africa will not compromise! Africa will not relent! Africa will not equivocate! And she will be heard! Remember Africa! -- Robert Sobukwe
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature. -- Adrienne Rich
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power. -- Lewis Cass
Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began. -- Mary Ritter Beard
The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices. -- Clarice Lispector
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed. -- Victor Hugo
I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society. -- Albert Einstein
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. -- Friedrich Schiller
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. -- Thomas Love Peacock
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. -- R. D. Laing
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize? -- Buzz Aldrin
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. -- Matt Blunt
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. -- Dag Hammarskjold
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. -- Kofi Annan
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Santayana
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. -- Ansel Adams
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. -- Susan B. Anthony
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. -- Alan Rickman
Human destiny is an episode between two oblivions. -- Ernest Nagel
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail. -- Publilius Syrus
Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny. -- Rene Dubos
The destiny of man is to be more and more human. -- Albert Schweitzer
The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality. -- Martin Carter
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions. -- Napoleon Hill
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. -- Brian Aldiss
Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny. -- Myles Munroe
If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken. -- Rudolf Steiner
Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny. -- Jaggi Vasudev
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny. -- John F. Kennedy
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars. -- Lorraine Hansberry
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature. -- George Washington
I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity. -- John F. Kerry
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. -- Rene Dubos
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race. -- Wilder Penfield
The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world. -- Edgar Morin
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. -- Henry David Thoreau
Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull. -- Eric Berne
It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. -- Henry David Thoreau
When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice. -- James Dashner
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species. -- Buzz Aldrin
The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me. -- Martin Buber
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. -- Rosa Luxemburg
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes. -- Thomas Merton
The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness. -- Immanuel Kant

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