Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Everything works out how it should.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

We cannot make great historical events, but must adapt ourselves to the natural course of things and limit ourselves to securing what is already ripe.

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

What must be shall be.

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

What can't be helped must be endured.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.