You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other's opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow.Howard Jacobson
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.Salman Rushdie
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.Douglas Coupland
The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.Douglas Coupland
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.Buddha