For all history up to the end of the Cold War summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
We have our own history our own language our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
At times we were forced to go through a history of dependence unable to determine our own destiny. But today we are at the threshold of a new turning point.
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.
Our history is not our destiny.
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
The chief condition on which life health and vigor depend on is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties increases its energy and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
Before the boat docked however he confessed because he was contemplating running for president he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't don't call it destiny call it injustice treachery or simple bad luck.
I believe that the people instead of pretty lies should be told the truth no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do destiny hasn't been kind to us but with the help of God we will prevail.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Alcohol doesn't console it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary it encourages him in his folly it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25 50 or perhaps 100 years.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
God wants us to prosper financially to have plenty of money to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut destiny life karma whatever. This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life.