I Believe: The Fate of the World

Maybe you met the girl or guy of your dreams but weren't able to commit and lost out.

Your Destiny Is Determined by Your Decisions

That's destiny slipping through your fingers. Fate can only do so much Other people might be stuck in a bad relationship where they're unhappy but feel it's "meant to be" that they stay together. I read this great quote that said "many people are in relationships that are over, but haven't ended.

If you don't have the love you want in your life, you need to take action to find it. Put yourself out there, be open to new possibilities and actively seek your own destiny! It can be hard to think of our destiny as being separate from our fate if we become accustomed to letting it lead our path. A lot of people look at life with a "que sera sera" what will be, will be attitude but if you think about it as something you have control over, you can make deliberate actions to create your desired destiny.

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This means being true to yourself and not being passive or only following other people's opinions. I truly believe remaining authentic is the best way to determine not just any destiny but the one that's meant for YOU. Fate presents us with the opportunities to create it, all we have to do is decide what destiny we want.

When you think about it, isn't it better to believe we can control our destiny by making deliberate, conscious decisions than just being passive bystanders in our own lives?

This goes back to creating a life for yourself that is in line with your authenticity. With the same attention we use to build our personal brand , we can shape our destiny. Destiny , sometimes referred to as fate from Latin fatum — destiny , is a predetermined course of events.

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Although often used interchangeably, the words "fate" and "destiny" have distinct connotations. In Hellenistic civilization , the chaotic and unforeseeable turns of chance gave increasing prominence to a previously less notable goddess, Tyche literally " Luck " , who embodied the good fortune of a city and all whose lives depended on its security and prosperity, two good qualities of life that appeared to be out of human reach. The Roman image of Fortuna , with the wheel she blindly turned, was retained by Christian writers, revived strongly in the Renaissance and survives in some forms today.

Wot I Think: Fate Of The World

Philosophy on the concepts of destiny and fate has existed since the Hellenistic period with groups such as the Stoics and the Epicureans. The Stoics believed that human decisions and actions ultimately went according to a divine plan devised by a god. They claimed that although humans theoretically have free will, their souls and the circumstances under which they live are all part of the universal network of fate. The Epicureans challenged the Stoic beliefs by denying the existence of this divine fate. They believed that a human's actions were voluntary so long as they were rational.

In daily language, "destiny" and "fate" are synonymous, but with regard to 19th-century philosophy , the words gained inherently different meanings. For Arthur Schopenhauer , destiny was just a manifestation of the Will to Live, which can be at the same time living fate and choice of overrunning fate, by means of the Art , of the Morality and of the Ascesis.

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For Friedrich Nietzsche , destiny keeps the form of Amor fati Love of Fate through the important element of Nietzsche's philosophy, the " will to power " der Wille zur Macht , the basis of human behavior, influenced by the Will to Live of Schopenhauer. But this concept may have even other senses, although he, in various places, saw the will to power as a strong element for adaptation or survival in a better way.

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The curves of your lips rewrite history. We have to make them ourselves. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know.

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Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right. Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face.