‘I don’t think anything might have been. What is, is.’
~ Edward Gorey
Wisdom | Courage | Justice | Temperance
‘I don’t think anything might have been. What is, is.’
~ Edward Gorey
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different…”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“My motto is, ‘You can never escape luck’ ”
~ Guillaume Faury/ Times, 24th November 2019
“The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.”
~ Cleanthes
“… sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
~ Marilyn Monroe
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
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“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
“Character is destiny.”
~ Heraclitus
“Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following.”
~ William Shakespeare
“There is no such thing as free will. People just have to do what they have to do.”
~ Lucian Freud
“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
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
~ William Shakespeare
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
~ Epictetus
“Our salvation and our loss is in ourselves.”
~ Epictetus
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”
~ Seneca