For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.