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"Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet."
"Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived."
"Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities."
"I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance."
"The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven."
"Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates."
"By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom."
"We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior."
"I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate."
"Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate."
"Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected."
"That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny."
"For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it."
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade."
"Men at some time are masters of their fates."
"Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate."
"Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate."
"Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. “Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.” Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain."
"I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow."
"Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined."
