In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
Interpretation
Individuals have the power to create their own success, irrespective of external circumstances.
This quote by Octavia Butler emphasizes the importance of self-agency in shaping one's destiny. It suggests that while challenges and negative events may occur in life, it is ultimately up to each person to take charge of their life, make positive choices, and forge their own path to success and happiness. Reliance on external forces or luck is insufficient; personal responsibility and action are crucial for achieving one's goals.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech about taking control of one's life.
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.
Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the _x000D_ ability to draw us into new dreams of justice, and to make them _x000D_ irresistibly practical, humorous and human. She makes clear that _x000D_ progress and pleasure go together.
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
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