individual fate Quotes

Individual interests now trump any consideration of the good of society just as all problems are ultimately laid at the door of the solitary individual, whose fate is shaped by forces far beyond his or her capacity for personal responsibility.

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here." (Not yours.) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience.

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

Souls are not saved in bundles.

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

Parents are one's companions in life but not partakers of one's karma.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

The soul of man createth its own destiny.

No man or woman can live another's fate

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.