Quotes About Fate

So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.

Meditations 9.40. "But those are things the gods left up to me," protests one voice, to which another responds, "And what makes you think the gods don't care about what's up to us?

não te lamentes com as dificuldades fixadas pelo destino no presente nem temas ou procures fugir do que para ti está reservado no futuro.

Is it not possible that a real man should forget about living a certain number of years, and should not cling to life, but leave it up to the gods, accepting, as women say, that 'no one can escape his fate,' and turn his attention to how he can best live the life before him?

39. Adapte-se às coisas que o destino lhe reservou. Busque amar, verdadeiramente, as pessoas com quem tem de se relacionar.

He does only what is his to do, and considers constantly what the world has in store for him—doing his best, and trusting that all is for the best. For we carry our fate with us—and it carries us.

Gladly surrender yourself to Clotho: let her spin your thread into whatever web she wills.

That men of a certain type should behave as they do is inevitable. To wish it otherwise were to wish the fig-tree would not yield its juice. In any case, remember that in a very little while both you and he will be dead, and your very names will quickly be forgotten.

why one should pray to a power whose decisions one can hardly hope to influence

Willingly therefore, and wholly surrender up thyself unto that fatal concatenation, yielding up thyself unto the fates, to be disposed of at their pleasure.

Whatsoever doth happen in the ordinary course and consequence of natural events, neither the Gods, (for it is not possible, that they either wittingly or unwittingly should do anything amiss) nor men, (for it is through ignorance, and therefore against their wills that they do anything amiss) must be accused. None then must be accused.

Love only what befalls thee and is spun for thee by fate. For what can be more befitting for thee?

justice in thought, in act unselfishness and a tongue that cannot lie and a disposition ready to welcome all that befalls as unavoidable, as familiar, as issuing from a like origin and fountain-head.

El libre albedrio de mi prójimo es igualmente indiferente a mi libre albedrio como su soplo y su carne. Puesto que, aunque en realidad unos nacimos para los otros, la recta razón de cada uno posee su propia independencia; de no ser así la maldad del prójimo vendría a ser un mal para mi. Pero Dios no lo ha decretado así, por que de lo contrario estaría en manos de otro el que yo fuera desgraciado.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

One of the five new replacements went right on guard duty. He was hit in the neck within forty-five minutes. I don't know if he lived, but he never did come back. His war was pretty short. - Don Bond

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Did not he, then, who, if he had died at that time, would have died in all his glory, owe all the great and terrible misfortunes into which he subsequently fell to the prolongation of his life at that time?

The goddess Fortune is mad, blind, and stupid, some philosophers maintain. They declare that she stands upon a revolving globe of stone; whither Chance impels this stone, thither, they say, does Fortune fall. She is blind, they repeat, for that she fails wholly to perceive whereto she attaches herself. Moreover they declare that she is mad because she is cruel, uncertain, and inconstant; stupid because she knows not how to tell worthy from unworthy.

See, says he, you who deny a providence, how many have been saved by their prayers to the Gods. Ay, says Diagoras, I see those who were saved, but where are those painted who were shipwrecked

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.