Quotes About Fate

He says he thanks every star the we existed on the same clestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man made throughaway for intersecting dreams.

Nobody's death is impending. ...Well technically everyone's death is impending.

You know as well as I do that fortune never sends the best-case scenario our way You have way too much bad karma.

The lucky ones hit partitions and went straight through. The unlucky ones collided with solid cinderblock walls. Things broke. Not the cinderblocks

Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.

There was nothing in Holly Short's future but death. Her current future. But the future could be changed.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

Whoever chafes at the conditions dealt by fate is unskilled in the art of life; whoever bears with them nobly and makes wise use of the results is a man who deserves to be considered good.

Lucky is the man who dies at work.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the author chooses, - if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be his pleasure that you should enact a poor man, see that you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen. For this is your business, to act well the given part; but to choose it, belongs to another.

Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.

Stop judging the things that fate brings you as "good" or "evil"; only judge your own thoughts, desires, and actions as good or evil. If you suppose events to be good or evil in themselves, when life doesn't go as you wish you will inevitably blame the Author.

The divine order does not design people or circumstance according to our tastes

If it pleases the gods, so be it.

Lead me, Fate, wherever you will, and I will cheerfully follow. For, even if I kick and wail, all the same I must follow. —Cleanthes

Whoever yields to fate becomes wise, by learning the laws of heaven. —Euripides

Behold the birth of tragedy: when idiots come face to face with the vicissitudes of life.

True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.

So-and-so's son died.' ('The question'). Answer: 'Since it's nothing he can control, it isn't bad.

Some things are within our power while others are not.

Lead me, Zeus, lead me, Destiny, To the goal I was long ago assigned And I will follow without hesitation. Even should I resist, In a spirit of perversity, I will have to follow nonetheless. [2] Whoever yields to necessity graciously We account wise in God's ways.

You cannot choose the era, nationality, family, and body into which you are born. But to act well in your given role—this is your sphere of power.

Anytus and Meletus can kill me, but they cannot harm me,'50 he says, and: 'If it pleases the gods, so be it.

Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us.