"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

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Source : "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

Jean de La Fontaine

#Journey Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes

“I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.”
“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”
“But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan
“Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .”
“Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.”

Source : Max Lerner (1992). “Ideas for the Ice Age: Studies in a Revolutionary Era”, p.96, Transaction Publishers
“A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.”
“There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.”
“It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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