fate

Our fate is so unhappy, our land is so unhappy. The girl is crying, the sister is crying, the wife is crying, the children are crying.

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Man’s character is his fate.

—Heraclitus

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. 

Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. 

Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.

—Sun Tzu

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Tis the best use of fate to teach a fatal courage.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

—Carl Jung

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

—Socrates

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

—Marcus Aurelius

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

—Nikolai Gogol

“We believe in a God of purposes and plans.

He has not left a blind fate to terrorize the world.”

Charles Spurgeon

Ukraine, Ukraine! My heart, my mother! When I remember your fate, my heart will weep!

—Taras Shevchenko

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt