Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. – Jawaharlal Nehru Category: Fate
[O]ne of my favorite Sufi poems… says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. – Elizabeth Gilbert Category: Fate
There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. – Diana Trilling Category: Fate
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Fate
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. – François VI de la Rochefoucault Category: People
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. – Octavia Butler Category: Science
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Category: Genius