Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live. The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
If it’s going to happen, it’ll happen. Fate will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it.
I want to seize fate by the throat.
I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, and gives a little round of deeds and days.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
For your brother and my sister no sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but they loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
