‘I don’t think anything might have been. What is, is.’
~ Edward Gorey
Friedrich Nietzsche on Life
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different…”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Guillaume Faury on Luck
“My motto is, ‘You can never escape luck’ ”
~ Guillaume Faury/ Times, 24th November 2019
Cleanthes on Fate
“The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.”
~ Cleanthes
Hagar on Fate
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Marilyn Monroe on Life
“… sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
~ Marilyn Monroe
Cormac McCarthy on Luck
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
~
Hunter Thompson on Fate
“No man who has chosen well and wisely will ever credit it to fate; the only real fatalist is a man on his way down the pipe.”
~ Hunter Thompson
Heraclitus on Character
“Character is destiny.”
~ Heraclitus
William Shakespeare on Fate
“Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following.”
~ William Shakespeare
Lucian Freud on Fate and Free Will
“There is no such thing as free will. People just have to do what they have to do.”
~ Lucian Freud
E. M. Forster on Fate
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
~ E. M. Forster
William Shakespeare on Fate
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
~ William Shakespeare
Epictetus on Character
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
~ Epictetus
Epictetus on Autonomy
“Our salvation and our loss is in ourselves.”
~ Epictetus
Seneca on Fate
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”
~ Seneca