W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I am a great respector of fate.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

What you cannot control, you must accept.

I'm a fatalist.

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.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Some things you can't control.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

It's better to accept destiny.

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

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Whatever will be, will be.

Whatever will happen will happen.