Quotes: N. Scott Momaday

"We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine who and what we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us it to go unimagined." 

–– N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934), Kiowa American writer. 

Quotes: Margaret Thatcher

"Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny." 

–– Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British stateswoman and former British Prime Minister (1979-1990) 

via: Sketchbook 28, 2015, p. 45.

Quotes: Lee Child

"Zeno of Cittium ... believed in going with the flow. The unquestioned acceptance of destiny. He believed in basking in the sun and eating green figs, instead of spending time and effort trying to change nature with irrigation." 

–– Lee Child, pen name of James Dover Grant (b. 1954), English writer

via: Sketchbook 26, 2015, p. 20.