One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.
Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.
There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.
