“You cannot leave everything to fate, boy. She’s got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand.” – Ever After

“Then let’s say God puts two people on Earth and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well then what?  Is that it? Or, perchance, you meet someone new and marry all over again. Is that the lady you’re supposed to be with or was it the first? And if so, when the two of them were walking side by side were they both the one and you just happened to meet the first one first or, was the second one supposed to be first And is everything just chance or are some things meant to be?” – Ever After

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

-Jawaharlal Nehru

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." -Lemony Snicket

"He that is born to be hanged shall never drowned." -Proverb

"Invictus"

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul. 

-William Ernest Hemmingway