#fate

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. ↗

— William Ernest Henley

#fate

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#innovation #fate

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate. ↗

— Sophocles

#fate #pain #fate

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#fate

Fate does not seek our consent. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#zedd #fate

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. ↗

— Jane Austen

#fate #letters #fate

I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#texas #fate

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#fate #faith

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#injustice #society #injustice