Statements about fate and life. Quotes about destiny. Be the master of your own life

Do you believe in fate, Neo?
- Not.
- Why?
“It’s unpleasant to think that you are being manipulated.

"Matrix"

In the end it will be like this
As it should have been.
You will be alone forever a stranger,
Others with you to keep the hearth.

"Nver Simonyan"

This is the most amazing thing of all: although fate itself testifies that it plays with people, and reminds them that they cannot rely on anything, watching it every day, nevertheless everyone strives for wealth and power and everyone roams full of unfulfilled hopes.

There are no accidents in fate; a person creates rather than meets his fate.

"Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy"

It happens sometimes that life separates two people just to show both how important they are to each other.

"Paulo Coelho"

If this is your destiny, no one and nothing will separate you. But if someone else's fate - nothing will make it yours.

Eastern people explain the collapse of personal effort by fate: fate! For socialists, fate is an economic necessity, for moralists it is a duty, for artists it is boredom.

"Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin"

Undoubtedly, how a person accepts fate is more important than what it really is.

"AT. Humboldt"

I don't predict fate. It's too big a responsibility. After all, not every person will be strong enough to accept his future. He will feel doomed. And, always expecting the worst, he will miss the main thing - his happiness.

"Ivanna Vishnevskaya"

Fate must be the necessary consequence of action, action of passions, passion of character.

"G. Lessing"

Stop seeing the finger of fate in everything, and she will stop showing you the middle finger.

"Boris Krieger"

When we fall asleep in the arms of peace, then fate strikes us with mortal blows.

"P. Buast"

Fate supplies us with only the raw material, and it is up to us to shape it ourselves.

"Michel de Montaigne"

If there is nothing left but to act badly, this is no longer an act, but fate.

What is written by the hand of Providence
No longer available to change
Neither the arguments of the mind, nor the knowledge of the theologian
And no tears can wash away the fate of the decision.

"Omar Khayyam"

The inevitable must be taken with dignity. The tears you shed over the inevitable must remain your secret.

"Marlene Dietrich"

Until fate conquers us, we must lead her by the hand, like a child, and flog her; but if she conquered us, then we must try to love her.

"F. Nietzsche"

So fuck fate! She went to hell! We will fight to the last, as we were taught!

If you confidently move in the direction of your dreams and make efforts to live the life you dream of, you will definitely meet luck that is unexpected in ordinary times.

"Henry Thoreau"

Do you know what I think? I think there is a reason for everything. I think that each of us has our own destiny. And I think God has something special in store for me... Just not in this life.

If everything in our world is dictated by fate, you must accept it. If you don't accept her, stand up and fight her.

Never complain about fate: you will upset your friends, you will please your enemies, you will not help yourself.

We often refer to fate, which seems to have decided something for us, but the truth is that we ourselves choose whether to live in a world of illusions born of our grievances and mistakes, or leave the past and move forward.

The human heart has an unfortunate tendency to call fate only that which breaks it.

"BUT. Camus"

Fate is more inevitable than chance. Fate is in character.

"Akutagawa Ryunosuke"

The wheel of fate is spinning faster than the wings of a mill, and those who were at the top yesterday are thrown into dust today.

"M. Cervantes"

Fate equally strikes both the strong and the weak, but the oak falls with noise and crackle, and the blade of grass - quietly.

"P. Buast"

There is no single truth in the world. This is nonsense ... Everyone has their own truth, and life develops as it pleases.

Fate is more inevitable than chance. Fate is in character...
Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Fate crushes us in two ways: by denying us our desires and fulfilling them.
A. Amiel

Every man's destiny is created by his morals.
Ant.

It seems that fate is joking extremely stupidly.
George Orwell

Fate. For a tyrant - an excuse for villainy, for a fool - an excuse for failure.
A. Beers

This is always the case in life: we try, make plans, prepare for one thing, and fate presents us with something completely different. From the insatiable conqueror who is able to swallow the whole world, to the humble blind man who is led by a dog, we are all toys of her whims. And, perhaps, the blind man who follows the dog follows the truer path and is less likely to be deceived in his expectations than the first blind man with all his retinue.
P. Beaumarchais

The fate of a person is most often in his character.
B. Brecht

B. Brecht

Anything that unexpectedly changes our lives is not an accident. It is in ourselves and waits only for an external occasion for expression by action.
V. Bryusov

When we fall asleep in the arms of peace, then fate strikes us with mortal blows.
P. Buast

Whoever asks fate for only what is necessary, often receives too much from it.
P. Buast

Fate equally strikes both the strong and the weak, but the oak falls with noise and crackle, and the blade of grass - quietly.
P. Buast

There are no accidents in fate; man creates rather than meets his destiny.
A. Wilmen

One must freely choose one's destiny and endure and fulfill it in the same way.
G. Hegel

We are prisoners of a common and dark fate
Between the whirlwinds of the universal blizzard,
And our heroes are just slaves
Myth has ideas and goals.
I. Huberman

Fate is very fast
Turn our lives upside down
But chance can strike a spark
Only from the one in whom she is.
I. Huberman

Undoubtedly, how a person accepts fate is more important than what it really is.
W. Humboldt

What a game of fate is human life! And how strangely the secret springs that govern our instincts change with the change of circumstances! Today we love what tomorrow we will hate; today we are looking for what tomorrow we will avoid. Tomorrow we will tremble at the very thought of what we crave today.
D. Defoe

We create our wealth and call it destiny.
B. Disraeli

Fate is always on the side of the wise.
Euripides

Fate is the most compelling argument for weak-willed people to justify their misfortunes.
V. Zubkov

The human heart has an unfortunate tendency to call fate only that which breaks it.
A. Camus

Of a lazy, immovable person, the most benevolent fate, like the most diligent potter without a loom, will create nothing but marriage.
T. Carlyle

Not everything that happens comes from fate. Something is in our power.
Carneades

I don’t quite understand: why do many people call fate a turkey, and not some other bird more like fate?
Kozma Prutkov

Think before you challenge fate: what if she accepts it.
B. Krutier

Fate reveals our virtues and shortcomings, just as light reveals the objects it illuminates.
F. La Rochefoucauld

Fate must be the necessary consequence of action, action of passions, passion of character.
G. Lessing

Fate sometimes swings too hard when it wants to lightly hit us. It seemed that she was about to crush us, but in fact she just slapped a mosquito on our foreheads.
G. Lessing

The fate of the highest values and shrines is connected with such a principle as freedom.
N. Lossky

Arguing with inevitability is useless. The only argument against the cold wind is a warm coat.
D. Lowell

Those who relied less on the mercy of fate held on to power longer.
N. Machiavelli

Where roses - there are thorns -
Such is the law of fate.
N. Nekrasov

Until fate conquers us, we must lead her by the hand, like a child, and flog her; but if she conquered us, then we must try to love her.
F. Nietzsche

Fate and character are different names for the same concept.
Novalis

Fate, like dissolute women, is never so dangerous as when she squanders her caresses.
A. Oxenstierna

In the vicissitudes of fate, one cannot rely on the bonds of friendship or hospitality: after all, only a few did not give out friends to the executioners who sought refuge with them.
Plutarch

Fate is a mysterious and incomprehensible thing.
Plutarch

Great destiny - great slavery.
Publilius Sir

Whom fate wants to destroy, takes away his mind.
Publilius Sir

It's your own fault, so don't complain about fate.
Publilius Sir

We attribute all our misfortunes to fate, but we never attribute our successes to it.
S. Regimanse

Fate can be a compensation for personal mediocrity.
R. Roman

Fate is the justification of weak-willed souls.
R. Rolland

Each person is the creator of his own destiny.
Sallust

So everything that exists in the world is marked by fate itself, / But a special sign is the stubbornness of the soul and mind.
Xie Tiao

Fate gives nothing to eternal property.
Seneca

In misfortune, fate always leaves a door for the exit.
M. Cervantes

The wheel of fate is spinning faster than the wings of a mill, and those who were at the top yesterday are thrown into dust today.
M. Cervantes

It is wrong to conclude that fate has made a person happy until his life is completed.
Sophocles

Just as a good actor must skillfully play the role that the playwright entrusts him with in his play, so a good person should be able to play the role assigned to him by fate.
Telet

The fate of a person is determined or, more precisely, indicated by his own self-esteem.
G. Toro

Everyone makes his own destiny, and she makes everyone.
I. Turgenev

Those who sail in a boat have only one fate.
Uzbek

Fate is intriguing and stubborn. / She knows no shame before anyone.
Ferdowsi

A lot of people confuse bad business with destiny.
K. Hubbard

Each blacksmith of his own destiny.
Y. Caesar

Thus, the least freedom is associated with the highest destiny, such people can neither express their disposition, nor hate, and most of all - indulge in anger.
Y. Caesar

No external coercion can support a person either on a mental or moral level, when he himself does not want to stay on it.
N. Chernyshevsky

Fate most willingly laughs at the ideals and prophecies of mortals - and, one must think, her great wisdom is reflected in this.
L. Shestov

What people usually call fate is, in essence, only the totality of the stupidities committed by them.
A. Schopenhauer

It is the lofty destiny of man to be born into some occupation which will afford him the exercise of his powers and happiness, whether it be weaving baskets, forging swords, digging canals, sculpting statues, or composing songs.
R. Emerson

You can't escape your destiny - in other words, you can't escape the inevitable consequences of your own actions.
F. Engels

Whoever is dissatisfied with his present position, dissatisfied with what fate has given him, he does not know life, but who courageously endures this, looks at things with a sound mind - a truly intelligent person.
Epictetus

Fate is a dark prison for the body and evil for the soul. Whoever is free in body and not free in soul is a slave, and, in turn, whoever is bound bodily, but free spiritually, is free.
Epictetus

Strengthen in yourself a sense of contentment with your fate: with this weapon you are invincible.
Epictetus

Rarely does fate stand in the way of the wise.
Epicurus

"Chance" and "fate" are nothing but empty words; stubborn prudence is the fate of man.
D. Hume

Fate is the path from the unknown to the unknown.
Attributed to Plato

Predetermined by Fate, even God cannot escape.
Herodotus

Do not say: “Oh, if I did this and that, it would be this and that!” But say: "Allah predetermined and He did what He willed." Because "if only" opens the case of Satan.
Sunnah (Muslim, Hadith 2664)

The Lord writes the script, and I only voice the lines.
From the American series "Close Friends"

It is not given to people to escape their fate, even when they foresee it.
Josephus Flavius

Zeno of China flogged a slave for theft. "I was destined to steal!" the slave told him. "And it was destined to be beaten." Zeno replied.
According to Diogenes Laertes

We must act; not in order to resist fate - this is not in our power - but in order to go towards it.
Christian Friedrich Goebbel

Fate can bring us to our knees, but it cannot make us grovel.
Lzhulitta Mikulskaya

Running away from fate, he, as is usually the case, rushes towards her.
Titus Livy

The destiny of man is man himself.
Bertolt Brecht

Fate is what is imposed on us; and what happened is called a biography.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky

Fate never opens one door without slamming another at the same time.
Victor Hugo

We can become the creators of our destiny if we stop prophesying about it.
Karl Popper

You will find a lot of private solutions to difficult questions by reading Quotes about fate and love with meaning, only selected replicas of the great individuals of mankind - Of course, first of all, love is a fact of nature (or a gift of God), a natural process that arises independently of us; but it does not follow from this that we cannot and should not consciously relate to it and independently direct this natural process towards higher goals. Vladimir Solovyov

Beautiful women today are ranked among the talents of their husbands. Georg Lichtenberg

Of all serious things, marriage is the most buffoonish. P. Beaumarchais

Lovers do not get bored with each other because they always talk only about themselves. Fr. La Rochefoucauld

What food is for the body, love is for the soul, knowledge is for the spirit; body, and soul, and spirit will perish if the life-giving springs dry up. Josef Görres

Honest men love women, deceivers adore them. Pierre Beaumarchais

Three things are incomprehensible to me, and four I do not understand: the path of an eagle in the sky, the path of a serpent on a rock, the path of a ship in the sea, and the path of a man to a woman's heart. Parables of Solomon (ch. 30, cm. 18)

Visible differences between men and women matter only to men and women. Robert Heinlein

It is better to be a sinner than to be known as a sinner. William Shakespeare

Drive love even through the door, it will fly in through the window. Kozma Prutkov

The world has two axes: love and hunger. Love and hunger are the basis of all human existence. Anatole France A woman cannot be guarded against her will. Ovid

Be cheerful and love your beauty, This world is like a running stream. Rudaki

Today, love often begins at first sight and ends at the second. Przekrui

The stage is more conducive to love than human life. For on the stage, love is usually the subject of comedies, and only occasionally of tragedies; but in life she brings many misfortunes, sometimes taking the form of a siren, sometimes a fury. Francis Bacon

A woman rarely forgives a man jealousy and never forgives the absence of jealousy. Colette

Women were God's second mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe me husband: stop encouraging vice with prohibition, -

Love without respect does not go far and does not rise high: it is an angel with one wing. Alexandre Dumas father

If we call jealousy an unfair, unfounded, absurd suspicion, then fair, natural jealousy, based on common sense and facts, deserves, perhaps, a different name. Jean de La Bruyère

Love is a story in a woman's life and an episode in a man's life. J. Richter.

Only through love and the consciousness of love does a man become a man. Friedrich Schlegel

Bypass us more than all sorrows And the lord's anger, and the lord's love. Alexander Griboyedov

Religion has done love a great service by declaring it a sin. Anatole France

The one who fell out of love is usually to blame for not noticing it in time. François de La Rochefoucauld

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins. Proverbs of Solomon (ch. 10, cm. 12)

The truth is that there is only one highest value - love. Helen Hayes

Where love or hate does not play along, a woman plays mediocre. Friedrich Nietzsche

A kiss between two women always resembles the handshake of wrestlers before a fight. Henry Mencken

Marriage provides the necessary continuity of the human race. Lucian

Love is the blind will to live. It lures a person with the phantoms of individual happiness and makes him an instrument for her own purposes. Schopenhauer

It has long been noticed that curiosity also burns the hearts of others and looks like love. Pierre Corneille

Love must forgive all sins, but not the sin against love.

Whether you marry or not, you will repent anyway. Marriage, to tell the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. Plutarch

The field of a woman is to arouse in a man the energy of the soul, the ardor of noble passions, to maintain a sense of duty and aspiration for the high and great - this is her purpose, and it is great and sacred. Vissarion Belinsky

Paying child support is like feeding hay to a dead horse. Groucho Marx

Not one of them will fall in love with a man whom all women love. Vasily Klyuchevsky

What we experience when we are in love may be the normal state. Love tells a person how he should be. Anton Chekhov

Your wife will have more influence on your political views than you on hers. If you do not have very strong convictions, she will convert you to her faith. She will grind you slowly and steadily during the day and - at least in her youth - quickly get her way at night. André Maurois

There is so much sweetness to the powerful goddess of love, That on a hundred altars her sacrifice is miserable. Vasily Trediakovsky

Oh, it's so easy to be nice to a man before you fall in love with him.

You always sleep worse in someone else's bed. Colette

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. Somerset Maugham

It's not safe for husbands to tell the truth about their wives! It's funny, but wives can tell the truth about their husbands quite calmly! Agatha Christie

No one has escaped death and love yet. Publilius Sir

Beauty hides every vice. Who could see vices in her? Alexander Pope

Love cannot be lost at will.

Prudent wife! If you want your husband to spend his free time near you, then try so that he does not find so much pleasantness, pleasure, modesty and tenderness in any other place. Pythagoras

Love is you and me...

Who, falling in love, forgets about genetics, the fruits of his love remind him of it. Wilhelm Schwöbel

A woman is like a tea bag: you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Nancy Reagan

The man is loudly indignant at the woman who has stopped loving him, and is quickly comforted; a woman does not express her feelings so violently, but remains inconsolable for a long time. Jean de La Bruyère

A respectful son is one who grieves his father and mother, except perhaps with his illness. Confucius

When there is no one you love, you have to love what is. Pierre Corneille

Women are prone to extremes: they are either much worse or much better than men. Jean de La Bruyère

Love, which is not felt silently, but which is thought out loud, is no longer young. Wilhelm Schwöbel

Love is always illegal. Legal love is dead love. Legality exists only for the ordinary, while love comes out of the ordinary. The world should not have known that two beings love each other. Nikolai Berdyaev

Marriage is the first stage of human society. Cicero

A good wife loves work and saves from evil. Gregory of Nazianzus

Love and doubt do not get along with each other. J. H. Gibran

True love strikes the heart like lightning and is silent like lightning.

Women are not as young as they make themselves out to be. Max Beerbom

Jealousy is a vice of a limited mind, trust is a virtue of a developed person. I. Bentham

When a person loves, he often doubts what he believes in most. François de La Rochefoucauld

If you want to know the shortcomings of a girl, praise her in front of her friends. Benjamin Franklin

Women prefer ordinary men, and men try their best to be as ordinary as possible. Margaret Mead

Women are the first educators of the human race. Oliver Goldsmith

The more we love a woman, the more we tend to hate her. François de La Rochefoucauld

Love is only a sweet mystery, It gives charm to it! Pierre Beaumarchais

Love cannot exist without respect. Nikolai Leskov

True love needs no sympathy, no respect, no friendship; it lives on desire and feeds on deceit. They truly love only what they do not know.

Marrying in order to have a beautiful wife is like paying dearly for a piece of land from where one can contemplate the sky that belongs to the whole world. P. mantegazza

Love is such a force, From which no bolt can protect the human heart. Sandor Petofi

This is how nature works: nothing strengthens love for a person so much as the fear of losing him. Gaius Pliny Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)

For most women, one man and one life make up the world. Bernard Show

It is possible to love the beautiful and shamefully. Fr. petrarch

A man listens with his ears, a woman with her eyes, the first in order to understand what is being said to him, the second in order to please the one who speaks to her. Vasily Klyuchevsky

She (love) happens to struggle with circumstances, but not with duty, for she herself is the first duty, the guarantee of the fulfillment of all others. Benjamin Constant

A warrior does not give up what he loves. He finds love in what he does. peaceful warrior

Love is a weakness, but it is forgivable if not left unanswered.

No matter how much a young woman loves, she begins to love even more when self-interest or ambition is mixed with her feeling. Jean de La Bruyère

Yes, God is Love. But what a devilish thing this love is! Samuel Butler

The opinion of men about the merits of a woman rarely coincides with the opinion of women: their interests are too different. Those cute habits, those countless antics that men like so much and kindle passion in them, repel women, giving rise to hostility and disgust in them. Jean de La Bruyère

You must always live in love with something inaccessible to you. A person becomes taller by stretching upwards.

How good it is for us to be with each other when you are sleeping and I am not! Colette

Love is a myth. Dean Koontz "Keys to Midnight"

And farewell from this article Quotes about fate and love with meaning - Women deprive of freedom only those who do not know what to do with it.

The collection includes quotes about the fate of man and the course of events:

Those who sail in a boat have only one fate.
To be a hero means to fight against the all-powerful fate. Franz Rosenzweig
Strengthen in yourself a sense of contentment with your fate: with this weapon you are invincible. Epictetus
In misfortune, fate always leaves a door for the exit. M. Cervantes
There are no accidents in fate; a person creates rather than meets his fate. Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich

What people usually call fate is, in essence, only the totality of the stupidities committed by them. A. Schopenhauer
The guilty are afraid of the law, the innocent are afraid of fate. Publius Cyrus
This is the most amazing thing of all: although fate itself testifies that it plays with people, and reminds them that they cannot rely on anything, watching it every day, nevertheless everyone strives for wealth and power and everyone roams full of unfulfilled hopes. Lucian
So everything that exists in the world is marked by fate itself, / But a special sign is the stubbornness of the soul and mind. Xie Tiao
Anything that unexpectedly changes our lives is not an accident. It is in ourselves and waits only for an external occasion for expression by action. V. Bryusov
The fate of a person is determined or, more precisely, indicated by his own self-esteem. G. Toro
Where roses - there are thorns - Such is the law of fate. N. Nekrasov
Fate, like dissolute women, is never so dangerous as when she squanders her caresses. A. Oxenstierna
For a careful look, fate is only the development of character. Astolf de Custine
The fate of a person is most often in his character. B. Brecht
It is more difficult to behave with dignity when fate is favorable than when it is hostile. François de La Rochefoucauld
Fate sometimes picks up various human misdeeds so skillfully that virtues are born from them.
Evil is indestructible. No person is able to reduce its amount in the world. He can somewhat improve his own fate, but always at the expense of worsening the fate of others. Strugatsky brothers "It's hard to be a god"
Fate is changeable: bad days alternate with very bad ones. Lily Tomlin
Every man's destiny is created by his morals.
Fate is at the same time the sum of all the deeds committed by a person, and the path along which he goes into the future, and what he must do for this world, for which he came into it.
Everyone within his own let fate remain. Ovid
Fate gives nothing to eternal property. Seneca
Each blacksmith of his own destiny. Julius Caesar
Fate never favors us with true sincerity. Horace
How merciful fate! She tries to unite people of the same mind, one taste, one disposition. Fonvizin, Denis Ivanovich
Fate can be a compensation for personal mediocrity. R. Roman
No matter what advantages nature has endowed a person with, she can create a hero out of him only by calling on fate for help.
Fate sculpts and crumples as it pleases. Plautus Titus Maccius
When we fall asleep in the arms of peace, then fate strikes us with mortal blows. P. Buast
Fate and character are different names for the same concept. Novalis
The wheel of fate is spinning faster than the wings of a mill, and those who were at the top yesterday are thrown into dust today. M. Cervantes
Fate reveals our virtues and shortcomings, just as light reveals the objects it illuminates. F. La Rochefoucauld
Whoever is dissatisfied with his present position, dissatisfied with what fate has given him, he does not know life, but who courageously endures this, looks at things with a sound mind - a truly intelligent person. Epictetus
Fate is always on the side of the wise. Euripides
Fortune is easy: what she gave, she will take again.
Fate fears the brave, crushes cowards. Seneca
A lot of people confuse bad business with destiny. K. Hubbard
Fate is the justification of weak-willed souls. R. Rollan
Many would reconcile themselves to Fate, but Fate also has something to say. Stanislav Jerzy Lec
Fate is the most brilliant poet. Franz Rosenzweig
We can become the creators of our destiny if we stop prophesying about it. Karl Popper
Fate is the most compelling argument for weak-willed people to justify their misfortunes. V. Zubkov
We create our wealth and call it destiny. B. Disraeli
Fate is a mysterious and incomprehensible thing. Plutarch
Not everything that happens comes from fate. Something is in our power. Carneades
One must freely choose one's destiny and endure and fulfill it in the same way. G. Hegel
I don’t quite understand: why do many people call fate a turkey, and not some other bird more like fate? Kozma Prutkov
There are no preliminary negotiations with fate. Victor Hugo
You can't escape your destiny - in other words, you can't escape the inevitable consequences of your own actions. Friedrich Engels
I prefer to complain about my fate than to be ashamed of victory. Curtius
Undoubtedly, how a person accepts fate is more important than what it really is. Wilhelm Humboldt
Until fate conquers us, we must lead her by the hand, like a child, and flog her; but if she conquered us, then we must try to love her. F. Nietzsche
Once Zeno flogged a slave for theft. "I was destined to steal!" the slave told him. “And it was destined to be beaten,” Zenon replied. Diogenes Laertes
Think before you challenge fate: what if she accepts it. B. Krutier
No external coercion can support a person either on a mental or moral level, when he himself does not want to stay on it. N. Chernyshevsky
Predetermined by Fate, even God cannot escape. Herodotus

It is wrong to conclude that fate has made a person happy until his life is completed. Sophocles
Rarely does fate stand in the way of the wise. Epicurus
Fortune is not blind, but we are. Thomas Brown
It's your own fault, so don't complain about fate. Publilius Sir
Do not say: “Oh, if I did this and that, it would be this and that!” But say: "Allah predetermined and He did what He willed." Because "if only" opens the case of Satan. sunnah
Arguing with inevitability is useless. The only argument against the cold wind is a warm coat. D. Lowell
Persistence softens fate. Gustave Flaubert
Fate is a dark prison for the body and evil for the soul. Whoever is free in body and not free in soul is a slave, and, in turn, whoever is bound bodily, but free spiritually, is free. Epictetus
We attribute to fate all our misfortunes and none of our successes. Charles Regimance
Fate is the path from the unknown to the unknown. Plato
We must act; not in order to resist fate - this is not in our power - but in order to go towards it. Christian Friedrich Goebbel
Fate is glass: shining, it breaks. Publius Cyrus
Bypassing us, fate decides things. Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Fate is what is imposed on us; and what happened is called a biography. Mikhail Zhvanetsky
It is not given to people to escape their fate, even when they foresee it. Josephus Flavius
Fate arranges everything for the benefit of those whom it patronizes. Fate sculpts and crumples as it pleases. Plautus Titus Maccius
Whoever asks fate only for what is necessary, often receives too much from it. Pierre Buast
The fate of the highest values and shrines is connected with such a principle as freedom. N. Lossky
Those who relied less on the mercy of fate held on to power longer. N. Machiavelli
Fate must be the necessary consequence of action, action of passions, passion of character. G. Lessing
Whom fate wants to destroy, takes away his mind. Publilius Sir
Fate is intriguing and stubborn. / She knows no shame before anyone. Ferdowsi
What a game of fate is human life! And how strangely the secret springs that govern our instincts change with the change of circumstances! Today we love what tomorrow we will hate; today we are looking for what tomorrow we will avoid. Tomorrow we will tremble at the very thought of what we crave today. D. Defoe
Fate can bring us to our knees, but it cannot make us grovel. Lzhulitta Mikulskaya