Simply Fate

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. - Marcus Aurelius 

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. - Voltaire 

Men are not prisoners of Fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. - Franklin Roosevelt 

Many men would take the death sentence without a whimper to escape the life sentence which Fate carries in her hand. - T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) 

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. - Sir Karl Popper 

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. - Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt