“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“And I'll tell you this, Amir Jan: In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.”— Chad Harbach, amazon.com
“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius t…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Our epic story began long ago, From the day that we met, I loved you so, Wish I had the chance to relive the past, To change the day our bitter fate was cast.”— Annamarie Jayne, allpoetry.com
“I’ve become so hyper-aware of all the possible signs the universe is handing me that I’m not even thinking about myself. Maybe it’s possible that, no matter what I choose, it will be right because I will make it right. But we can’t look for clues in the present as though they’ve been left here by th…”— Leah Singerman, thoughtcatalog.com
“We think that at every moment we are masters of our actions; but if we look back on the course of our lives and in particular bear in mind our unfortunate steps together with their consequences, we often do not understand how we could do this or omit to do that, so that it looks as if a stranger pow…”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”— Lemony Snicket, goodreads.com