Stoic Quotes on Fate

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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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.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Discourses

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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Discourses

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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Discourses

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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Discourses

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Author: Seneca
Source: Letters from a Stoic

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