1. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. ~Abraham Maslow
2. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved. ~William Jennings Bryant
3. Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. ~Hasidic saying
5. If....one's destiny is shaped from within, then one has become more of a creator, has gained freedom. This is self - transcendence, a process of change that originates in one's heart and expands outward, always within the purview and direction of a knowing consciousness, begins with a vision of freedom, with an "I want to become....," with a sense of the potentiality to become what one is not. One gropes toward this vision in the dark, with no guide, no map, and no guarantee. Here one acts as subject, author, creator. ~Allen Wheelis, HOW PEOPLE CHANGE
6. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. ~Orison S. Marden
8. The Loom Of Time
Man's life is laid in the loom of time
To a pattern he does not see,
While the weavers work and shuttles fly
‘Til the dawn of eternity.
9. The strangest secret is that we become what we think about most of the time. ~Earl Nightingale
10. We are what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
11. You are what your deep driving desire is,
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny. ~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5