An obscure character by the name of Belial. He is interpreted as a minion of the devil by some scholars, but that is wrong. It is ignorance. The name means, literally speaking, 'one who cannot be yoked, ' and it is really every one of us who takes control of our own destiny while others blow in the wind. We may be punished for it, but we would never do it another way. We are all Belials. Matthew Pearl
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  1. One love, one heart, one destiny. - Bob Marley
  2. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. - Thomas Merton
  3. You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space-- I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him. - L.m. Montgomery
  4. There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be... - John Lennon
  5. You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny. - Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By Matthew Pearl
  1. Books do pretend. ..but squeezed in between is even more that is true–without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
  2. 'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'
  3. Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
  4. Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish....
  5. It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.
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