“Act as your own nature commands you; put up with whatever common nature brings to you.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“For long I’ve watched you trying to fight against it, all for nothing. Shorten sail, change course.”— Aeneas, amazon.com
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen and your life will go well.”— Epictetus, amazon.com
“Life is a game of dice. Even if you don't throw the number you like, you still have to play it and play it well.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“We must bear up against them and make the best of mankind as they are, since we cannot make them as we wish.”— George Washington, amarch.lib.niu.edu
“If someone took traffic signals personally we would judge them insane. Yet this is exactly what life is doing to us. It tells us to come to a stop here. Or that this intersection is blocked or that a particular road has been rerouted through an inconvenient detour. We cannot argue or yell this probl…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“It's easy to say what should have been, harder to acknowledge the inexorable force of necessity.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Fate soon teaches us, in a rough and ready way, that we really possess nothing at all, but that everything in the world is at its command.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not unusually handsome, and she was not especially beautiful. They were just an ordinary lonely boy and an ordinary lonely girl, like all the others. But they believed with their whole hearts that somew…”— Haruki Murakami, youmightfindyourself.com
“Maybe the simple truth would do. ‘Good morning. You are the 100% perfect girl for me.'”— Haruki Murakami, youmightfindyourself.com
“We have a seemingly infinite capacity for misery. Yet if the human race is cursed, it is not so much because we have been thrown into suffering and mortality, nor because we have a deeper capacity for suffering than other creatures, but rather because we take suffering and mortality to be confirmati…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com