#fate

Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

What we do not make conscious emerges in our lives as destiny.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life.

A man's character is shaped not by what happens to him, but by the attitude he takes toward what happens.

What is called for is not to endure fate passively, but to shape our attitude toward it with heroic resolve.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.

Fate never seems so blind as in the eyes of those whom she does not favor.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Misfortune may conceal a blessing, just as fortune may harbor sorrow.

When fortune turns its face away, even the softest silk can slice your fingers like a razor.

Character is destiny.

Character is destiny.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

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

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.