“There is no destiny beyond and above ourselves; we are ourselves the architects of our future.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Cassius, Act I, scene ii.
Variant: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Source: Julius Caesar
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
Variant: Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
Source: Love and Living
“The Destiny of Earthseed
Is to take root among the stars.”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 7 (p. 84)
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)