’Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.