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“A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it”

Men Accepting Fate Destroyed

Author:Spartacus

“My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.”

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Author:Uzo Aduba

“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.”

“Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you look with open eyes at your actual life, it's always going to be the kind of long division problem that doesn't work out perfectly evenly. Poems let you accept the multiplicity and complexity of the actual, they let us navigate the unnavigable, insoluble parts of our individual fates and shared existence.”

Ifs Way Giving Looks Kind Long Problem Eye Individual Existence Known Accepting Fate Work Out Complexity Division Permission Navigate Multiplicity Unsure Open Eyes Actual Life

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.”

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Author:Noel Tichy

“He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!”

Believe Accepting Fate Necks Collars

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.”

Difficult Accepting Fate Uncertain Difficult Things

Author:Michael Crichton

“The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.”

People Book Accepting Fate Creator

Author:Victor Hugo

“Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact....I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.”

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Author:Paul Davies

“What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.”

People Given Interest Accepting Fate Dignity Enormous Surprising

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."”

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Book:One Minute Wisdom

Source: One Minute Wisdom

“He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek refuge for his crushed self-confidence in the solace of a 'saving lie'. If the longed-for success is not forthcoming, if the vicissitudes of fate destroy in the twinkling of an eye what had to be painstakingly built up by years of hard work, then he simply multiplies his exertions. He can look disaster in the eye without despairing.”

Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism