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Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the universe. Destiny may be envisaged as fore-ordained by the Divine (for example, the Protestant concept of predestination) or by human will (for example, the American concept of Manifest Destiny). A sense of destiny in its oldest human sense is in the soldier's fatalistic image of... full article at wikipedia

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Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Destiny is not a 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.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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