Whatever limits us, we call Fate.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

—Seneca

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

—Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

—Seneca

One should count each day a separate life.

—Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

—Seneca

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.

—Madonna

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

—John Fletcher

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

—Jacques Delille

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

—J. K. Rowling