"You make yourself what you are.Â You have control of your own destiny."

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Brad Pitt

#Destiny Quotes

“Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.”

Source : Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons
“In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.”

Source : James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press
“In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.”

Source : "Michael Phelps: 'I consider myself normal'" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2012.
“Grumbling is the death of love”
“Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.”
“I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.”
“People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.”
“All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.”

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