Quote of the Day (F. Scott Fitzgerald, on People’s Destinies)

“The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.”—American novelist and short-story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), “Majesty,” first published in the Saturday Evening Post, July 13, 1929, reprinted in Taps at Reveille (1935)

Quote of the Day (Edgar Lee Masters, on ‘The Winds of Destiny’)

“I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me—
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor….
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat.”—American poet and lawyer Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950), “George Gray,” in Spoon River Anthology (1915)
 
I took the image accompanying this post while on vacation nine years ago in Hilton Head, SC.