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.

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things that exist; observe, too, the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

The duration of a person’s life is only a moment; our substance is flowing away this very moment; the senses are dim; the composition of the body is decaying, the soul is chaos, our fate is unknowable, and reputation uncertain. In a word all bodily things are like a flowing river, and everything of the soul is dream and smoke, and life is all warfare and a stranger’s wanderings, and the reward is oblivion. What then could possibly guide us? Only one thing: Philosophy.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity ...

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you...