~ A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~
~ There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~
~ Destiny has two ways of crushing us by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ~
~ Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity. ~
~ No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. ~
~ Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. ~
~ Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst. ~
~ Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. ~
~ Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed. ~
~ Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. ~
~ Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny. ~