Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

Homer
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We are all born into this world with our share of good and bad luck. Some people are born into wealth, while others are born into poverty. It is inevitable that some of us will have more difficulties than others in life. Yet, no matter how hard life may seem, there is always something to be thankful for.

We have the freedom to determine what we want to do with our lives. Freedom to learn and grow. Freedom to make mistakes and learn from them.

Freedom to move forward with the plight of the past in mind. That is what fate is; our fate is what we make it; it is up to us to choose whether we will be a slave or a master of our own lives.

Source: The Iliad

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